Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft (403 Artikel)

The book is a generative study of a number of English and Polish processes of suffixation. It focuses on various constraints on such processes. The allomorphy of English inflection is shown to foll...

This collection of articles brings together new research from both established and emerging international experts in the study of English grammar, all of whom have engaged with the notion of 'const...

In what ways are language, cognition and perception interrelated? Do they influence each other? This book casts a fresh light on these questions by putting individual speakers' cognitive contexts, ...

How to Do Things with Memoir

Convention and Contravention in Ben Jonson's Three Comedies: Volpone, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair is a book about Jonson's convention of comedy that is a disguise for the realities of life. The...

Ewa Jonsson is a researcher in English linguistics at Mid-Sweden University.

Counterfactuality is currently a hotly debated topic. While for some disciplines such as linguistics, cognitive science, or psychology counterfactual scenarios have been an important object of stud...

This book is committed to women as writers and storytellers; all the selected novels are female-centric in that the main characters are women. The authors, also women, are from three diverse Americ...

In discussions of American poetry since World War II, the work of John Berryman has become increasingly neglected and marginalized. Critics have overwhelmingly chosen to favour the notion that he i...

Light and darkness shape our perception of the world. This is true in a literal sense, but also metaphorically: in theology, philosophy, literature and the arts the light of day signifies life, saf...

Diese Einführung skizziert Entwicklungslinien und Entwicklungsformen des amerikanischen Dramas von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Sie legt dabei den Schwerpunkt auf das 20. Jahrhundert. Die Studie...

Die Buchreihe Theatron bietet besonders qualifizierten Abhandlungen aus den Bereichen Theaterwissenschaft und Dramenforschung ein interdisziplinäres Forum. Studien zu allen Sparten des Theaters- vo...

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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...

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