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Language of the English Street Sign This book opens readers’ eyes to something they see all the time but take for granted: street signs. It is a portrait of the signs on modern English streets:…
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„Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Langland’s poem, written around 1370, about a man called Will who fell asleep on the Malvern Hills and dreamed of Piers the Plowman. This was a time between the…
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„Fin de siècle,“ murmured Lord Henry.„Fin du globe,“ answered his hostess.„I wish it were fin du globe,“ said Dorian with a sigh.„Life is a great disappointment.“ Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray Kein…
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Romantic Circles ist ein virtuelles Forschungsportal zur englischsprachigen Romantik. Die Seite ist in acht Bereiche aufgeteilt: 1. “Electronic Editions” features new volumes of edited Romantic-era texts along with commentary and annotation by leading contemporary scholars…
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Talk and textual production in medieval England People in medieval England talked, and yet we seldom talk or write about their talk. People conversed not within literary texts, but in the world in which those…
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The Camelot Project is designed to make available a database of Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information. The project, begun in 1995, is sponsored by the University of Rochester and prepared in The Rossell…
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„Jahrhunderte lang rauben und plündern die Wikinger an der englischen Küste. Die reichen Klöster und unbefestigten Städte sind eine leichte Beute. So schnell die Wikinger auftauchen, so schnell sind sie mit ihren Langschiffen auch wieder…
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University of Oxford: „Approaching Shakespeare“ Each lecture in this series focuses on a single play by Shakespeare, and employs a range of different approaches to try to understand a central critical question about it. Rather…
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„Two stories, one from Italy, one from England. In the one from Italy, Costanza is born which would usually be pretty great … except her parents are already in retirement and have given everything away…