Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft (372 Artikel)

""Art"" is not the first topic that comes to mind when thinking of Paul Auster's novels and films. ""Solitude"", ""emptiness"", ""loss"" and ""desperation"" are more likely to suit the reader's exp...

This study focusses on Byron's largely disregarded career as a playwright and establishes Shakespeare as an important influence on his plays. This brings them closer to stage representa-tion althou...

J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is one of the most popular works of fiction of the twentieth century and beyond. It has been sold over 100 million times in different countries around the w...

If asked about which writer they associate with Anglophone literature, most students might come up with William Shakespeare, who has also become an integral part of British cultural identity. As a ...

'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...

Andrea Hammel is a Research Fellow at the Centre for German-Jewish Studies and Tutorial Fellow in German history and culture at the University of Sussex. Godela Weiss-Sussex is Senior Lecturer in M...

Silvia Granata graduated in Foreign Languages and Literatures in 2002. After attending an MA at the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York, she received a PhD at the University o...

Lisa Freigang 'There Was No Looking Away' Representations of Post-Partition Communal Violence in Indian English Literature ISBN 978-3-86821-952-4 The partition of the Indian subcontinent into the s...

This study is concerned with the continuity between the Romantic conception of nature and contemporary Euro-American environmental discourses and literary practices. More specifically, it examines ...

Miriam Acartürk-Höß studierte Anglistik und Romanistik an der Universität Stuttgart und der University of Wales, Aberystwyth; ein Forschungs- und Arbeitsaufenthalt bei der Société Internationale de...

Eusebio V. Llácer Llorca has published several works on Poe's short stories and his research interests cover Literatures, Linguistics and Translation. Currently, he teaches North American Literatur...

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- NUMERALS -- NATURE -- FISH -- BIRDS -- PLANTS -- BODY -- SPIRIT, GAMES -- HUMAN RELATIONS -- MAN-MADE THINGS -- QUALITIES -- PRONOUNS, ADVERBS, GREETINGS -- INFLECTED FORM...

This study is an attempt at tracing and understanding Shakespearean intertextuality with the help of both qualitative and quantitative methods. The author looks for (near-)verbatim quotations of Sh...

The book presents a systematic theoretical account of the fundamental constructional mechanisms that underlie deverbal nominalization in general, and it makes an original descriptive contribution b...

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...