Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft (373 Artikel)

Romanticism - an era of rebellion, of overreachers revolting against previous generations' conventions of taste, style and morals. Romantics made transgression their badge of honour and prided them...

"White trash" is a liminal figure that dramatizes the intersection of race and class. Contemporary British novelists like Irvine Welsh, Niall Griffiths and John King use this originally US-American...

Ex Oriente Lux - aus dem Osten kommt das Licht. Aber die Welt ist rund. Wenn man immer weiter nach Osten geht, kommt man schließlich wieder zu den abendländischen Ursprüngen zurück, die unser Denke...

Ex Oriente Lux - aus dem Osten kommt das Licht. Aber die Welt ist rund. Wenn man immer weiter nach Osten geht, kommt man schließlich wieder zu den abendländischen Ursprüngen zurück, die unser Denke...

»Camp Comforts« investigates the wide-ranging impact of camp on AIDS literature and places this impact within two different traditions of camp analysis: a politically subversive one that aims at so...

Exemption and the American Campus Novel

The book embeds a description and an analysis of the Old English numeral system into a broader, cross-linguistic discussion. It provides a theoretical framework for the study of numerals and numera...

This volume pays homage to Monika Seidl, a key figure of cultural studies at the University of Vienna's Department of English and American Studies and spotlights her many achievements in the field....

The Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and l...

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The Author: Sabine Heinz, born in Berlin, studied Russian, English, and Celtic languages at the Humboldt-University of Berlin and obtained her Ph.D. in Translation theory there. She has since lectu...

Systemic Functional Perspectives

This book examines the special nature of English both as a global and a local language, focusing on some of the ongoing changes and on the emerging new structural and discoursal characteristics of ...

Gerald Morgan was formerly a Senior Lecturer and Fellow at Trinity College Dublin. His publications include (2005) and (Peter Lang, 2010).

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...