Boundaries Boundary Crossing Cross-Boundary Transfer

Proceedings of the 2007 BSBS and BASA Annual Conference South-Western University "Neofit Rilski", Blagoevgrad. Bulgaria 9-12 November 2007 This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the conference of the Bulgarien Society for British Studies (BSBS) which took place on 9-12 November 2007 at the "Neofit Rilski" SWU, Blagoevgrad.

Vladimir Trendafilov, Introduction
Literary Studies

• Michael Hollington. The Idea of Porosity in D. H. Lawrence's: Movements in European History
• Ralitsa Muharska: Gertrude Stein and Travesty
• Hasine Sen. Borderland Literature: The Use of Myth in Rudolfo Anaya's: New Mexico Trilogy
• Vessela Katsarova. The Female Literary Tradition: Thematic and Stylistic Contribution
• Zelma Catalan. Marshes and Mists: The Fictional Landscapes: of Pip's Jorney in Dickens's Great Expectations
• Ali Gunes, "A Third Rorce" or Neo-Colonialism in Graham Greene's: The Quiet American
• Elena Kalapsazova. Shakespearean Maguses in Angela Carter's Wise Children
• Ludmilla Kostova. Postcommunist and Postcolonial Voices Singing in Unison? : Reflection on an Ongoing Critical Practice
• Yana Rowland. Madness and Insight in Alfred Tennyson's Monodrama:Maud
• Ludmilla Miteva. I Belong (W) Here: a Journey into Adulthood
• Ivi Kazantsi. Wandering in the Unmapped Territories of Laurence Sterne's Mind and Narrative: An Approach to : A Sentimental Journey
• Tugba Hacaloglu. On and Off the Route: Crossing the Boundaries of Gender with The Turn of the Screw
• Cornelia Vlaicu. Going Home: Spaces of Identity Reconstruction in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
• Feryal Cubukcu. Interacting and Transacting with "The Bloody Chamber" by Angela Carter

Writing Across Literatures

• Vladimir Trendafilov. Diferences in Formatting: Audience Sensitivity in the Translation of English Poetry in Bulgaria Before and After the Political Changes
• Maria Pipeva. The Bulgarian: Jungle Books
• Vitana Kostadinova. Reception across Borders
• Boris Neimushin. Seducing the Bible to Condition the World
• Maria Dimitrova. Transsgressive Transtextuality: Early Reception of the Waste Land Notes

Creative Transgression

• Ellie Boyadzhieva. Dualism in Terry Pratchett's "Thief of Time"
• Anita Kasabova. A Primitive Boundary: The Schema
• Kristin Dimitrova. Transsgression betweeen Genres - The Role of the Writer
• Mustafa Kirca and Firat Karadas. Orhan Pamuk's Blending Visual and Verbal Forms of Art in "My Name is Red"
• David Hill. Crossing Boundaries in the Contemporary Poetry in the British Isles

Language Policy, Literary Policy

• Marco Modiano. Multiculturalism and the Challenges of English for Europe
• Joel Kuortti. Colonial Violence in Diasporic Indian Writting: Jallianwala Bagh as the final Boundary
• Diana Yankova. An Attempt at Characterizing EU Legislative Texts
• Sabastian Berg. Boundaries, Nations, Diasporas: Black Atlantic Perspectives: The Literary Translation Project at New Bulgarian University
• Frauke Hofmeister. Bounding the Regions? The Role of Boundaries in the Definition Process of the English Religions
• Diana Popova. The "Plattening" of the World
• Lubomir Terziev. Could Literature Both Create and Transcend Boundaries in Education?

Linguistic Studies

• Maria Georgieva, Lilyana Grozdanova. A Corpus-based Study of EIL: Cross-Cultural Interaction
• Tsvetomira Venkova. Cross-Linguistic Aspects of Subject Control
• Snezhina Dimitrova. Cross-Linguistic Studies of Sress and Accent
• Nelly Tincheva. The Mesh of Political Texts: A Cognitive Perspective on the Boundary between "Leaders" and "People"
• Snezha Tsoneva-Mathewson. Colour Predication in Russian and Bulgarian
• Mitko Sabev. Is Present-Day English an Isolating Language?
• Maria Chankova. Indirect Speech Acts: The Mechanism of Meaning Generation and the Semantics Pragmatics Boundary Crossing
• Nelly Yakimova. The Influence of Power and Distance on Complimenting Expressions
• Dafina Kostadinova. A Semantic Analysis of the Phrase "Modern Woman" and Its Interpretations By Contemporary SWU Students from Bulgaria and Macedonia
• Alexandra Bagasheva. Can a Bluestocking Be a Potterhead? What Can Boundary Crossing and Conceptual Blending Theory Tell Us about English Exocentric Compounds?
• Yana Chankova. From SOVv to SvVX - a Minimalist Approach ( An Account Based on a Study of the Perfect Periphrasisi in Old English)