The Editors: Herbert Grabes is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Gießen (Germany). His main areas of research are sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, modern American literature, and literary theory.Wolfgang Viereck is Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics and Medieval English Literature at the University of Bamberg (Germany). He has published widely in the following areas: the history of English, regional and social variation of English world-wide, and contact linguistics.

• Contents: Yasmine Gooneratne: ‘Truth’ and ‘Fiction’ in South Asian Literature – Olga Fischer: Grammaticalization and Iconicity: Two Interacting Processes – Ruta Nagucka: Metaphorical Aspects of Compounding in Old English – Katie Wales: Dialects in Mental Contact: A Critique of Perceptual Dialectology – Heinrich Ramisch/Wolfgang Viereck: Recent Developments in Computer Cartography – Liliane Gallet-Blanchard/Marie-Madeleine Martinet: Hypermedia and Urban Culture: A Presentation on the CD-ROM «Georgian Cities» – Therese Fischer-Seidel: Review: «Georgian Cities», CD-ROM – Tom Shippey: Review of Michael Alexander, «Beowulf: A Verse Translation» – Graham Parry: The Anglican Counter-Reformation – Sabine Volk-Birke: Milton, Handel, and Samson’s Fall. Changing Concepts of Tragedy and Heroism – Manfred Malzahn: Scottish Literary Aesthetics – William V. Davis: «Bruised by God»: Charles Wright’s Apocalyptic Pilgrimages – Ansgar Nünning: Narratology and Cultural History: Tensions, Points of Contact, New Areas of Research – Frédéric Regard: Joining Critical Theory and Ethical Theory: Pragmatics and the Question of the Author – Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan: Narrative as Paradigm in the Interface Between Literature and Psychoanalysis – Ronald Shusterman: Theory as Solidarity: The Ethical Dimension of Fictional and Theoretical Reading.