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English Studies Today: Words and Visions ENGLISH STUDIES TODAY: WORDS AND VISIONS SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND ANGLOPHONE LITERATURES TODAY (ELALT 3) Novi Sad, 2017 UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY Department of English Studies Editor-in-Chief: Dr Ivana Živančević Sekeruš, Dean Editors: Dr Bojana Vujin Dr Mirna Radin-Sabadoš Reviewers of the volume: Dr Roberta Maierhofer, University of Graz, Austria Dr Tanja Paunović, University of Niš, Serbia Dr Vladimir Gvozden, University of Novi Sad, Serbia ISBN 978-86-6065-415-3 Filozofski fakultet u Novom Sadu Odsek za anglistiku Dr Zorana Đinđića 2, 21000 Novi Sad Tel: +381 21 485 3900 +381 21 485 3852 www.ff.uns.ac.rs The authors are responsible for the authenticity, accuracy, and originality of their papers. Reviewers Dr Zorica Đergović Joksimović Dr Ivana Đurić Paunović Dr Borislava Eraković Dr Sonja Filipović Kovačević Dr Tatjana Glušac Dr Vladislava Gordić Petković Dr Ana Halas Dr Sabina Halupka Rešetar Dr Aleksandra Izgarjan Dr Milena Kaličanin Dr Nataša Kampmark Dr Aleksandar Kavgić Dr Viktorija Krombholc Dr Gordana Lalić Krstin Dr Vesna Lazović Dr Vesna Lopičić Dr Arijana Luburić Cvijanović Dr Maja Marković Dr Tatjana Milićev Dr Nataša Milivojević Dr Predrag Novakov Dr Olga Panić Kavgić Dr Zoran Paunović Dr Tvrtko Prćić Dr Diana Prodanović Stankić Dr Danijela Prošić Santovac Dr Biljana Radić Bojanić Dr Jagoda Topalov Dr Tijana Tropin Dr Sonja Veselinović INTRODUCTION The publication before you is a collection of selected papers presented at the Third International Conference on English studies: English Language and Anglo- phone Literatures Today (ELALT 3), held at the University of Novi Sad on 21 March 2015. Over 60 researchers from ten countries took part in the conference, presenting their works on many different aspects of contemporary studies in Eng- lish language, literature and culture. The papers in this volume are the choicest selection of those submitted. Each of these selected papers received two positive blind reviews and sometimes addi- tional editorial comments. The publication is organised into two parts, according to the topic of research. The first part of this volume is dedicated to the study of literature and culture, and aptly named Topics in Anglophone Literatures. This selection includes four- teen representative papers on a wide variety of topics, ranging from old canonical favourites such as Shakespeare or Eliot to more typically Postmodernist preoccu- pations, such as the re-imaginings of fairy tales and analyses of television series. The opening paper was delivered as the ELALT 3 keynote lecture by Réka Cristian, associate professor and Chair of American Studies at the University of Szeged, Hungary. In her paper, Professor Cristian explores the important para- digm often employed in the works of the US Chicana writers, the intricate issue of borderland / la frontera, focusing her research on the works of the contemporary author Sandra Cisneros. This informative and interesting analysis offers many in- sights into the diverse identity constructions depicted by Cisneros’ ‘master meta- phor,’ that of home. The remaining thirteen papers, presented here in alphabetical order, showcase the broad scope of interests of our conference participants, and are as varied and as fascinating as the participants themselves. Bojana Aćamović writes about Walt Whitman, one of the staples of Anglophone poetry, and observes the ways in which city life, particularly two of its features – flânerie and bohemianism – shaped the father of American poetry as an urban creator. Stevan Bradić continues this explo- ration of the most well-known poetic works written in the English language, and dedicates his paper to Eliot and his ‘Prufrock’, looking at the poem through the lens of Rancière’s idea of the distribution of the sensible. Sofia Christensen, on the other hand, focuses on the genre of the university/campus novel, approaching it from a comparatist perspective – by analysing one such novel written in Nor- wegian and its English and American predecessors. Tatjana Dumitrašković brings us the first of several Shakespearean papers in this collection, revitalising the dis- cussion of the ever relevant and important themes of war and violence. Andrea Gomboš and Dragan Babić delve into adaptation theory, dedicating their paper to two of pop-culture’s most famous detectives, Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes, and two of their many popular TV versions. Vladislava Gordić Petković connects literary and gender studies in her paper about Sarah Waters’ neo-Victorian female protagonists, analysing the relationship between women writers and the revival of nineteenth century settings. Danica Igrutinović offers a fresh perspective on an- other Shakespearean phenomenon – love and its many facets – basing her research on the theoretical framework of Renaissance Neoplatonism. Mladen Jakovljević writes about the overlap between the human and the artificial in his paper on Philip K. Dick, and focuses on the notion of authenticity and the relationship between the human and the mechanical, through the concepts of othering and exclusion. Mile- na Kaličanin explores the works of two contemporary Scottish female authors who write about dysfunctional relationships between men and women, setting them on the backdrop of popular urban myths. Tijana Matović turns our attention to yet another iconic American author in her paper about Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, approaching it from the perspective of theories related to gender, trauma, fiction and history, paying special attention to the relationship between the personal and the public. Tatjana Milosavljević also takes a predominantly theoretical approach to her topic, and dedicates her paper to the intersections of the theories of irony and hybridity in the work of Zadie Smith. Ana Sentov, meanwhile, analyses what it means to be human by immersing herself in the world of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novels. Sanja Šoštarić, finally, writes about Postmodernist experimental perspectives on what is probably one of the most traditional and most formulaic genres – the fairy-tale – focusing on the re-definition of the genre itself, feminist theory and metafictional concerns. Even though the papers in this section cover a broad range of topics, they are, nevertheless, connected by a palpable admiration for the creative endeavors of the authors who write their literary works in the English language, as well as by the indisputable talent and dedication that our authors show in their explorations of these wonderfully varied ideas. Part II introduces a selection of seventeen papers discussing topics in English language and linguistics. The papers range from morphology and syntax to pho- netics, lexicography and cognitive linguistics, with a significant number of papers relating to applied linguistics, translation and teaching methodology. Irena Aleksić explores epistemic modality in English journalistic discourse researching the evidence from British daily newspapers, The Independent, The Guardian and The Daily Express. She proposes that since the English language does not signal evidentiality through grammar, it is the role of lexical devices to indicate the source and the speaker’s attitude towards the truth value of the prop- osition, which establishes the level or (un)reliability across various discourses. 6 Exploring the cognitive field, Tomislav Bukatarević performs a thorough analysis of the English verbs of visual perception, arguing that the association of the new sensory perceptions with the verbs “see” and “look” ‘contrasts their mechanisms of lexical semantic change’, resulting in the increased presence of the metaphors of cognition involving verb “to see”. In her contrastive analysis of diminutives in informal registers of English and Serbian, Aleksandra Kardoš focuses on establish- ing the main properties of nominal diminutives at the levels of form and content and on determining systematic similarities and differences between the two lan- guages in order to provide an insight into the morphological, semantic and prag- matic aspects of the presence of diminutives in the proposed languages. Shifting to the contrastive approach towards phonetics, Bojana Jakovljević introduces the results of an experiment designed to analyze the level of achievement of Serbian speakers in acquiring the articulation of the English affricate /tʃ/. The experiment involves recording of the modulation determined by the four parameters, whose results imply different levels of language transfer with the examined subjects, as well as a hierarchy of acoustic features in the language acquisition process. Maja Marković and Tatjana Milićev explore prosodic phrasing of contrastive topics in English and Serbian suggesting that there is phonological evidence to distinguish two types of contrastive topics. They argue that one type of contrastive topic (CT1) is prosodically realized as a Major Phrase, while the other type (CT2) is prosodi- cally realized as an Intonational Phrase, which is in line with what Selkirk (1995, 2005) has suggested for English. They consider boundary signals in English and Serbian and further show that there are interpretational differences between CT1 and CT2, depending on the type of referent and type of focus in the rest of the clause. Investigating several central grammatical differences between Serbian and English, Predrag Kovačević observes word order freedom, presence of articles and presence of case suffixes, arguing that the established
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