Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft (21 Artikel)

'An Epistle of Noble Poetrye' is a late-fifteenth-century English translation of Christine de Pizan's 'L'Epistre d'Othéa' (ca. 1400). The 'Epistle' survives in London, British Library, MS Harley 83...

'A Christian Mannes Bileeve' (CMB) is a vernacular prose commentary on the Apostles' Creed likely composed in the first half of the fourteenth century. It has received little attention and has not ...

The "Drillbook of English Phonetics" is designed to accompany lecture courses on English phonetics and language laboratory classes in British English pronunciation at university level. It is equall...

The late fifteenth-century Middle English manuscript Oxford, Trinity College, MS 29 contains a universal history of the world, which begins with the creation and covers large swathes of biblical an...

'American English Pronunciation: A Drillbook' is designed to accompany lecture courses on American English phonetics and language laboratory classes in American English pronunciation at university ...

Although Chaucer's 'Boece' has been edited many times, this is the first edition to offer not only a critical text but also collations with all extant medieval and late-medieval authorities and als...

Die Neubearbeitung rührt nicht an die Grundprinzipien des seit über vier Jahrzehnten ebenso beliebten wie weit verbreiteten 'Klassikers' von Ernst Leisi. Die Darstellung ist kontrastiv, d.h. wesent...

'3e knowe ek that in forme of speche is chaunge Withinne a thousand 3eer, and wordes tho That hadden pris, now wonder nyce and straunge Us thenketh hem, and 3et thei spake hem so.' 'Ihr wisst ja: i...

During the past twenty-five years, ecocriticism has become an increasingly prolific field of study. Broadly speaking, ecocriticism examines historically variable concepts of nature, environments an...

Englische Sprachgeschichte soll in dieser Einführung an Texten erarbeitet werden. Unter Anwendung moderner linguistischer Methoden werden die wichtigsten strukturellen Wandlungen des Englischen auf...

The volume takes stock of the various extensions the growing field of ecocriticism has seen over the last decade or so. Contributions from 15 specialists examine the increasing theoretical and meth...

'Material Bodies' is a book about the multiple connections, exchanges, interfaces, between biology and culture. It explores how Americans, past and present, have been empowered or constrained by bi...

In adapting the terse Genesis story of the Fall, Milton was faced with numerous narrative and philological riddles. Where, for example, was Adam when Eve was tempted, or what exactly was the meanin...

As growing economic and racial inequality continues to shape American society, homelessness remains an urgent issue. Embedded in American history, and more recently exacerbated by the 2008 financia...

Delving deep into the structural and structuring intricacies of humor in British and American novels, this book presents a systematic theory that unravels humor's multifaceted nature. Humor's forms...