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Water and Women in the Victorian Imagination During the Victorian period, naturally wet spaces – marshland, rivers and the sea – were construed as feminised loci, articulating contrasted visions of Woman as the angelic Undine…
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„“Ich könnte mich wirklich nicht im Ernst hinsetzen, um eine ernsthafte Romanze zu schreiben, es sei denn, es ginge um Leben und Tod; und wenn dies der Fall wäre, wenn ich schreiben müsste und niemals…
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Explore literature in context Discovering Literature brings to life the social, political and cultural context in which key works of literature were written. Enjoy digitised treasures from our collection, newly commissioned articles, short documentary films…
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SWR2 Zeitwort: „16.7.1951: „Der Fänger im Roggen“ von J.D. Salinger erscheint““ „Das Buch enthält 44 Mal das Wort „fuck“, 255 Mal „verdammt“ und machte Salinger weltberühmt: „Der Fänger im Roggen“ erzählt die Geschichte einer Odyssee…
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Blending, from English to Arabic This book examines the interesting linguistic phenomenon of blending, where new words are formed to enrich the lexicon of a language. Blending in English has been thoroughly investigated to the…
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Pejorative suffixes and combining forms in English The book is a research monograph that reviews and revises the concept of linguistic pejoration, and explores the role of 15 suffixes and combining forms, such as -ie,…
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„Das literarische Genre „Nature writing“ entwickelte sich mit der Industrialisierung in England und den USA. Naturerscheinungen werden sachkundig, aber aus subjektiver Perspektive beschrieben. Denn ist nicht der Mensch auch Teil der Natur?“ (Bayern 2, Justina…
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English rock and pop performances: a sociolinguistic investigation of British and American language perceptions and attitudes This book addresses the phenomenon of non-American rock and pop singers emulating an Americanized singing style for performance purposes.…
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„Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies. When three witches prophesy that Macbeth will be king one day, he is not prepared to wait and almost the next day he murders King…
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Dynamic Dialects contains an articulatory video-based corpus of speech samples from world-wide accents of English. Videos in this corpus contain synchronised audio, ultrasound-tongue-imaging video and video of the moving lips. We are continuing to augment…