Author as Reader

The Editors: Sabine Coelsch-Foisner, born in Upper Austria (1960), is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Theory and coordinates the Interdisciplinary Research Centre Metamorphic Changes in the Arts at the University of Salzburg. Her publications include a study on William Morris and an award-winning study on Mid-Twentieth-Century British Women’s Poetry. Her main fields of research are cultural/critical theory, poetry, Victorian culture and literature, fantastic body transformations, literature and the arts.Wolfgang Görtschacher, born in Linz, Upper Austria (1960), is Assistant Professor at the University of Salzburg teaching literary criticism and translation studies. He has published books and numerous articles on little magazines and the small press scene in Great Britain. He is the owner-director of Poetry Salzburg, a publishing company specialising in English poetry, and edits the poetry magazine Poetry Salzburg Review. Current projects include a book on the impact of Non-Shakespearean Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama on later dramatists.

• Contents: Jodi-Anne George: From Imaginary Sheep to the Agnus Dei: The Wakefield Prima V. Secunda Pastorum – Regina Schneider: «And Are You There, Old Pas?»: The Fate of the Pastoral Element in Philip Sidney’s Arcadia – Victor Skretkowicz: From Alpha-Text to Meta-Text: Sidney’s Arcadia – Nicholas Royle: Sentencing Coleridge – Glyn Pursglove: Rethinking the Devil’s Thoughts: Coleridge and Southey – Christopher Smith: Vision, Revision, Seeing and Insight: Thomas Hardy’s Poem «The Rejected Member’s Wife» – Lucia Cordell Getsi: Georg Trakl as Reader Appropriator: A Study in Intertextual Text-World Construction – Robert Rehder: Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams: Re-Seeing, Search and Discovery – Peter Boxall: All Balls: Internal Revision and Narrative Authority in Beckett’s Prose – Philip Laubach-Kiani: The Staging and Revising of Deficient Memory in Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape – Milada Franková: Authorial Doubts: Metafictional Revision – Monika Coghen: Coleridg’s Osorio and Remorse: From Tragedy towards Sentimental Drama – Anton Kirchhofer: Negotiating the Constraints of Authorship: (Un)Authorised Endings in Dickens and Fowles – Rama Kundu: Pudd’nhead Wilson: Making and Remaking of a Text – Rudolf Weiss: Re-writing the Drama: Multiple Versions of Granville Barker – Mohit K. Ray: «Stitching and Unstitching» in «Sailing to Byzantium» – Mike W. Malm: Revision and Ideology in Ezra Pound’s Cantos: Historical Sources and the Politics of De-Contextualization – Günther Jarfe: Auden as Reader and Critic of His Own Poems – Krisztina Dankó: Tennessee Williams’s Textual Visions and Revisions – Philip Mosley: Rewriting Irish-American Daughter/s: Deborah Lou Randall’s Unfolding Drama – Mariaconcetta Costantini: «The fruit of much restlessness»: Literary Creation and Revision According to Ben Okri.