To appear in July 2025:

Katalin Balogné Bérces (KU & PPCU) - Janka Kaščáková (KU & Olomouc) - Tomáš Kačer (MUNI) (eds.),
Crossing borders between countries, scholars, and genres: Commemorating the late Kathleen E. Dubs.

To be published by Verbum.

Contents

Notes on contributors

Countries, Scholars and Genres in Tribute to Kathleen E. Dubs: An Introduction
Katalin Balogné Bérces, Janka Kaščáková and Tomáš Kačer

László Munteán’s Letter to Kathleen

The Tolkienesque and Fantasy

1. The Corruption of the Best is the Worst: Saruman as an Academic and a Priest
   Janka Kaščáková
2. Tolkienesque Elements in Etelka Görgey’s Mythopoetical Science Fiction
   Ildikó Limpár
3. “Where It Was Not” – Varieties of Mindscapes in Fantastic Fiction
   Károly Pintér
4. Crossing Genres, Crossing Media: The Cthulhu Mythos Through the Ages
   Laura Škrobánková

Across Genres and Ages

5. From Gentle Wit to Venomous Bites: Benjamin Franklin’s “Industry” of Marketing Ideas
   Beatrix Balogh

6. From Chaucer to Atwood: Robes, Roles, and Repression in Gilead
   Katarína Labudová
7. “No Love like a Mother’s Hate”: Navigating Internalized Misogyny and Inter-Generational Trauma in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad
   Nora Júlia Levická
8. How We (Can) Remember Medieval Women in Biofiction: The Case of Victoria MacKenzie’s For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain
   Nóra Séllei
9. Liminal Aspects of the Hero’s Journey in the Major Works of Neil Gaiman
   Ianina Volkova

Language in Transition and Transfer

10. Now You See It, Now You Don’t: h-dropping in the Early History of English
    Katalin Balogné Bérces and Shanti Ulfsbjorninn
11. Personal Names in the Irish Gaelic Translation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit
    Dóra Pődör
12. Developing L2 English Essay Writing Skills at the C1 Level: A Focus on the Process
    Csilla Sárdi

 

The project is supported by the Visegrad Fund's grant #22420198.

Project coordinator: Katalin Balogné Bérces (e-mail)