Preliminary notes
BELL Old Series was BAAHE's journal from 1986 up to 2002, when it was succeeded by its internationally refereed follow-up BELL New Series.
BELL Old Series tables of contents
Below are listed the tables of contents of all issues of BELL Old Series (Belgian Essays on Language and Literature, 1986-2002):
[2002] 
[2001] [2000] [1999] [1998] [1997] [1994]
[1993] [1992] [1991] [1990] [1989] [1986]
BELL 2002
David GLOVER: Conrad's Aliens
Griet BEHEYDT: The Present Tense with Future Time Reference in English and Dutch
Christophe DEN TANDT: Cybercolonialism ? The Foreign Policies of Postmodern Science Fiction
Florence D'SOUZA: Between Resistance and Resilience: Rohinton Mistry's
A Fine Balance.
Elisabeth DUMONT:
Dracula and the Explosion of Binaries: The Prescriptive Role of Doctors of the Mind
Régis FABBRA: Some Kafkaesque Echoes in W.S. Merwin's
The Miner's Pale Children
Françoise KRAL: Overwhelming Bodies and Faint Voices: Mudrooroo's Quest to Write the Native
Patrick LENNON: The Real and the Duplicate: John Banville's
Frames Trilogy
Jeroen LIEVENS: Tied to the Handle of a Shopping Cart: The Representation of Manhattan's Spatiality in "Blank Fiction" Novels
Patricia MUÑOZ: Womanhood, Race and Myth-Making in Toni Morrison's
Beloved and Gayl Jones' Corregidora and
Song for Anninho
Ellen SIMON: Exploring Regressive Voicing Assimilation in English and Dutch in the Framework of Optimality Theory
John SKINNER: Embodying Voices: Language and Representation in Amitav Ghosh's
The Glass Palace
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BELL 2001 (back issues no longer available, but copies of papers may be ordered)
J.R. WATSON: The English Hymn
J.-P. VAN NOPPEN: The English Hymn: A Discourse Perspective
Y. BADIR: The Two Narrators of
Mrs. Dalloway
M. CLAESKENS: Tokens of Love: The Treatment of Love Symbols in John Donne's
Songs and Sonnets
Ph. DE BRABANTER: Zellig Harris's Theory of Syntax and Linguistic Reflexivity
E. D'HOKER: Sceintific Creations and Artistic Transformations in John Banville's
Kepler
A. GEORGE: Linguistic Stylistics and Literary Studies: Towards a Discourse-Oriented Approach of Dramatic Dialogue
C. GEVAERT: Anger in Old and Middle English: A "Hot" Topic ?
D. HECQ: This Ineffable State of Refuse
A. KUMAR: Interlinear Forms: William Sanson's
Prose Ballads
H. SCHWALL: The Working Class Hero's View on 20th Century Ireland in Recent Historical Novels
A. SHOEMAKER: Mudrooroo and the Curse of Authenticity
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BELL 2000 (back issues no longer available, but copies of papers may be ordered)
Franca BELLARSI: Jack Kerouac's Buddhism in
Some of the Dharma: A Not So Simple Story
Maggie Ann BOWERS: Ritual Literature in a Postmodern World: Leslie Marmon Silko's US/Mexico Border Writing
Johan CALLENS: Preposterous Postmodernities. A Review Essay
Stef CRAPS: Gender Performativity in Woolf's
Orlando
Jean-Michel LEJEUNE: Why Write an Autobiography That Isn't? Generic Considerations of James Weldon Johnson's
Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
Marc MAUFORT: The Playwright as Modernist: Epiphanic Monologues in O'Neill's Late Dramas
Philip SICKER: The Perils of Plot: Disrupted Desire in Modern Narrative
Heidi VERPLAETSE: Aspects of the Use of
Want to in Informal British English: The Private Character of Volition in Various Guises
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BELL 1999
Paul J. THIBAULT: Putting Humpty Dumpty's Theory of Meaning Back to Together Again: Can Saussure Help?
William McGREGOR: Humpty Dumpty Didn't Have Such a Great Fall After All
Christophe DEN TANDT: Postmodern Realism: Is There Room for Referential Cultural Practices in a Postmodern Context?
Ingebord LANDUYT:
Finnegans Wake and its Intertexts
Dirk Noël: Is
claim a
believe -type Verb: Further Proof of the Pudding
Eloy ROMERO-MUÑOZ: Reading Jay Harjo in a Postcolonial Light
Heidi VERPLAETSE: The Expression of Volition in Political Interviews Reconsidered
Jean-Christophe VERSTRAETE: The Distinction between Epistemic and Speech Act Conjunction
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BELL 1998
Kate FULLBROOK: Henry James's Hawthorne
Gert BUELENS: Response to "Henry James's Hawthorne"
Elisabeth BEKERS: The River Between by Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Romeo and Juliet in a Colonial Kenyan Context
Philippe DE BRABANTER: Metalinguistic Awareness in Translation
Christophe DEN TANDT: Ernest Poole's
The Harbor: Naturalism, Socialism and the Whitmanian Tradition
Pierre FRANÇOIS: Martin Amis's Postmodern Re-visiting of "Planet Auschwitz" in
Time's Arrow
Dominique HECQ: Australia's Geopsychic Imagination: Exilic Patterns
An LAFFUT: A Quantitative Approach to the Locative Alternation
Françoise LOSFELD-CARL: The Double Bind of a Divided Heritage. The Competing Influences of Hogg and Woolf on Emma Tennant's
The Bad Sister
Eriks USKALIS: Exploding Aesthetics: Inside and Outside Michael Ondaatje's
In the Skin of a Lion
Marie-Christine VELDEMAN: Avignon, or the Ambivalence of Place in Lawrence Durrell's
Quintet
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Voices of Power, ed. M. Maufort & J.P. van Noppen.
Liège: L3 / Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education, 1997 (Back issues to be ordered from
Liège: L3).
J.P. van NOPPEN: Power, Cooperation and Conflict in the English Language
M. STUBBS: Constructing a Dictionary of Cultural Keywords
S. SARANGI & S. SLEMBROUCK: Cooperative Rationality in Public Discourse: the Case of Welfare Leaflets and Citizen Charters.
V. HERMAN: Misunderstanding and Power: Contests of Understandings.
F. BELLARSI William S. Burrough's Art: The Search for a Language that Counters Power.
S. HARRIS: Strategic Discourse: Power, Co-Operation and Conflict.
R. TUFFS: Patterns of Power in Business Meetings.
F. BOERS: Health, Fitness and Mobility in a Free Market Ideology.
I. KNOTT: The Function and Implications of Metaphor in British "Quality" and "Popular" Dailies.
R. LURIE: Language, Conflict and Power in the Trial Scene of Webster's
White Devil.
M. MAUFORT: Power and the Literary Text.
In Memoriam Betty Jean Jones.
P. PARRINDER: Textual Policies and the Public Domain: Modern English Literature and European Copyright.
M. DEMOOR: Power in Petticoats: Augusta Webster's Poetry, Political Pamphlets, and Poetry Reviews.
C. ZABUS: The Power of Sycorax: Gynocracy in Gloria Naylor's
Mama Day and Marina Warner's
Indigo
H.J. ELAM, Jr.: "Only in America": Contemporary American Theater and the Power of Performance
B. J. JONES: Adrienne Kennedy's Dramatic Realism: Power and the Concept of Being in the American Drama
M. MAUFORT: "A Rustle of Wind Blowing across Two Continents": August Wilson's Magic Realism as Expression of Empowerment.
G. PITCHER: The Readerly Ruse: Paul Laurence Dunbar's Dialect Poetry and the Aesthetics of Authenticity.
C. Den TANDT: Vitalism and Control: Frank Norris's and Jack London's Urban Sociology.
J. WALRAVENS: Positions of Power in the Funhouse of Form:
Sabbatical as a Key (in)to John Barth's Fiction.
D. BRYDON: One Poem Town ? Contemporary Canadian Cultural Debates.
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BELL 1994
Marc DELREZ: Political Aesthetics: Cross-Cultural Desire and the Capitulation of Form in the Work of Kazuo Ishiguro and Salman Rushdie
Michel DELVILLE: Meaningful Interiors: An Interview with Clark Coolidge
Bart EECKHOUT: How Not to Read Homosexuality: The Case of Mike Drayton, a.k.a. Hart Crane
Dominique HECK: Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World: Mudrooroo's Ideological Claim in the Land of History
Luc HERMAN: JFK Today: Clinton and Stone
Geert JACOBS: Performative Reporting: Speech Presentation in Press Releases
Lieve JOOKEN: "A Sound Like the Gaggling of Geese" Lord Monboddo's Discussion of Languages of the New World
Andrew SANDERS: Towards Writing A Short History of English Literature
Ria SNELLINX: Sympathetic Magic: An Interview with Lanford Wilson
Tamise VAN PELT: Entitled to Be King: The Subversion of the Subject in King Lear
Ginette VERSTRAETE: Joyce's "Gentle Art of Advertisement" From Art to Mass Production
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BELL 1993
Marysa DEMOOR: An American in Britain: Anonymous Comments on Henry James in the
Athenaeum , 1890--1910
Christophe DEN TANDT: Abjection and Oratory in Upton Sinclair's
The Jungle: The Contradictions of Political Discourse in American Naturalism
Michael HULSE: Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney and Poetic Authority
Christine LEVECQ: A View on American Humorous Fiction
Marc MAUFORT: O'Neill's "Passage to India": Spiritual Discovery of America in
The Fountain
Phillip STERLING: A Target for Poetry: Plotting Unity in a Poem
Marie-Christine VELDEMAN: Narrative Technique in Lawrence Durrell's
Monsieur
Kristiaan VERSLUYS: "How Should a Good Man Live?" Saul Bellow and the City
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BELL 1992
Johan CALLENS: From Miracle Body to Christ Figure: A Reading of Jack Richardson's "Talmus" in the Light of Eliade and Girard
Ilse DEPRAETERE: Aspects of Expressing Anteriority in Past Domain Relative Clauses
Bart EECKHOUT: "Amoroso ma non troppo": The Music of the "Sirens" Chapter in Joyce's
Ulysses
Thierry FONTENELLE: The Causative/Inchoative Alternation in
Cobuild
Peter FULLER: Australian Writing: A Survey
Kathleen DE LOOF: Signifyin(g) Morrison: The Black Female Voice in
The Bluest Eye
Alain PIETTE: Shaw and Tragedy: The Doctor's Dilemma
Hilde STAELS: Metaphor and Mind-Style in Margaret Atwood's
Cat's Eye
Hélène VARSAMIDOU: "I am your father, and I am speaking English, and I love you": Fragments of a Lover's Discourse in
Lolita
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BELL 1991
Peter BARRY: English in Crisis: The 1980s and "Practical Theory"
Peter BARRY: Literary Theory into the 90s
Johan CALLENS: "When I Read the Book": Sam Shepard's Action
Tony CURTIS: Creative Writing in the B.A. Degree
Ortwin DE GRAEF: Tennyson's Turn
Michel DELVILLE: The Aesthetic of Perception and the Quest for Vision in Faulkner's
As I Lay Dying
Christophe DEN TANDT: Animistic Economics in Theodore Dreiser's
Sister Carrie
Eric LEE: Pedagogy Versus Demagogy: More on Linguistic Value Judgements
Marc MAUFORT: Narrative Patterns in the Plays of David Mamet
Sonia VANDEPITTE: A Causal Relation between Propositions: A Universal?
J.P. VANDER MOTTEN: Late Seventeenth-Century Satires on Women
James L.W. WEST III: Styron's Revised Opening for
Set This House on Fire
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BELL 1990
Alan SILLITOE: A Writer's Life
Jean-Louis CUPERS: From Bede's
Ecclesiastical History to Britten's
Peter Grimes: Jakobsonian Categories in Analyzing a Literary Subgenre
Nadia D'AMELIO: No Inheritors in Golding's
The Paper Men
Marc DELREZ: The Rock of Empire: The Image of the Stone in
To the Islands
James O'DRISCOLL: Quality versus Equality: Making Value Judgements about Language
Guy A.J. TOPS: The Second Edition of the
English-Dutch Van Dale
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BELL 1989: PAPERS 1987-1988
(back issues no longer available, but copies of papers may be ordered)
John FLETCHER: Iris Murdoch's London
Peter NEWMARK: Translation as an Instrument of Linguistic, Cultural and Literary Criticism
Marysa DEMOOR: Men of Letters, their Clubs, and "At Homes" in London in the 1880s and 90s
Steven GEUKENS: The Semantics of Sentence Types: The Case of the Exclamative
Luc HERMAN: History as Mystery: Peter Ackroyd's
Hawksmoor (1985)
Geert LERNOUT:
Finnegans Wake: The Limits of Interpretation
Hélène LÉTARGEZ: The Quest for Authenticity in John Fowles's Pictorial Vision
Jean-Pierre VAN NOPPEN: Searle, Grice and Pinter: A Grammar of Non-Communication?
Mia VANRESPAILLE: The English Get-Passive
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BELL 1986
(back issues no longer available, but copies of papers may be ordered)
Robert BURCHFIELD: The Completion of the Supplement to the OED and the Way Ahead.
Dirk STEENHAUT: Femininity and Androgyny in Virginia Woolf
Diana PHILLIPS: Form and Formlessness in Iris Murdoch's
The Good Apprentice.
Nadine VAN DEN EYNDEN: Grammatical Variation in the Dorset Dialect: Linguistic Stagnation Exemplified ?
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