Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft (399 Artikel)

From the appreciation of female beauty as Botticellian to the acknowledgement of the Van-Goghian pathos of Provençal landscapes, the ekphrastic gaze of a British postmodern observer offers a socioc...

Cristiano Broccias teaches at the Universities of Genova and Pavia, Italy.

This book examines the structure and function of the English it-cleft configuration from within the framework of construction grammar. It defends a straightforward extraposition-from-NP analysis (o...

A Critical Approach to Contemporary Letter Narratives in Anglophone Fiction

Approaching the Inexplicable

Authorship, Antebellum Literature, and Transatlantic Rhetoric

A Functional Perspective

The Editors: G. F. Mitrano is the author of (2005). She works on the intersection of critical thought, literature, and the visual arts. She has taught at the University of Maryland in Europe, the U...

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Writings on the metropolis generally foreground illimitability, stressing thereby that the urban ultimately remains both illegible and unintelligible. Instead, the purpose of this interdisciplinary...

Jörg Zorbach studied American Studies, Sociology, and Social Anthropology at the Universities of Mainz (Germany) and Canterbury (United Kingdom).

The object of the volume is the analysis of the main dictionaries and glossaries of the canting language (the particular jargon spoken by thieves and vagabonds) that appeared in the 17th and 18th c...

The Languages and Linguistics of Australia: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The volume provides a t...

A Multimethod Perspective on Constructional Alternations

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER 1: Medieval Letters and the Verse Love Epistle -- CHAPTER 2: Precursors of the Middle English Verse Love Epistle -- CHAPTER 3: Chaucer...