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This Festschrift seeks to reflect, in its wide-ranging variety of topics,
the interests that have fascinated Jeanne Delbaere throughout her
teaching and research career at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Indeed, the essays collected in this volume address fiction as well as
drama and poetry, contemporary as well as time-honored literary works,
including British, American and New Literatures in English. This, it is
hoped, will be a fitting homage to Jeanne Delbaere’s involvement in
English Studies. In a large measure, “Union in Partition” offers a
re-definition of the by now classical dichotomy modernism/postmodernism.
Although most of the essays deal with contemporary and often postmodern
writers, the critics of this collection never sever the link with
humanism; instead, they show how, through literature, order is recreated
out of chaos. This humanistic critical stance, which Jeanne Delbaere
herself has always favored as a scholar, offers a clear link with the
Shakespearean allusion embedded in the title.
Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Gilbert DEBUSSCHER: Jeanne Delbaere: A Brief Biography
- Marc MAUFORT: “Union in Partition”: Studies in English Literatures
- A. Norman JEFFARES: Four Poems for Jeanne Delbaere
- Anna RUTHERFORD: Three Memoirs: A Personal Response
- Jean-Pierre VAN NOPPEN: Proxemics, Discourse and Literature
- Jean DIERICKX: Of Children and Cave-men: the Readability of Golding’s Early Novels
- Pierre MICHEL: Hamlet Yet Again? Yes
- Herman SERVOTTE: John Banville: Beyond the Self
- Millicent BELL: Refractions of Isabel Archer
- Christophe DEN TANDT: Oceanic Discourse, Empowerment and
Social Accommodation in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and Henrik
Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea.
- Gilbert DEBUSSCHER: “Where Memory Begins”: New Texas Light on
The Glass Menagerie
- Ivo VIDAN: The Competing Worlds of Toni Morrison
- Robert CLARK, Constanza DEL RÍO, Juan A. SUÁREZ: Reading
“The Piano” Psychoanalytically
- Geoff DAVIS: Beethoven and the Cree: Towards a Comparative,
Cross-Cultural Approach to Post-colonial Literature
- John LENNOX: The Spirit and the Letter: The Correspondence of
Margaret Laurence
- Danielle SCHAUB: “Released sorrows long held in check”:
Quest for Self-Knowledge in Fredelle Bruser Maynard’s Raisins
and Almonds and The Tree of Life
- Clara THOMAS: Carol Shields: The Republic of Love and The
Stone Diaries. “Swerves of Destiny” and “Rings of Light”
- Simone VAUTHIER: Mapping Alistair MacLeod’s “Vision”
- Coral Ann HOWELLS: Star Maps and Shifting Perspectives:
Alice Munro’s The Moons of Jupiter
- Geert LERNOUT: Multicultural Canada: the Case of Michael Ondaatje
- Marc MAUFORT: Exploring “the Other Side of the Dark”:
Judith Thompson’s Magic Realism
- Wilson HARRIS: Ways to Enjoy Literature
- Hena MAES-JELINEK: “Tricksters of Heaven”: Visions of Holocaust
in Fred d’Aguiar’s Bill of Rights and Wilson Harris’s Jonestown
- Christine PAGNOULLE: Kamau Brathwaite: A Voice Out of Bounds
- Jean-Pierre DURIX: The Modernity of Maori Tradition: Patricia
Grace’s Potiki
- Publications of Jeanne DELBAERE
- Contributors.
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