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On the avenue of the mystery: the postwar counterculture in novels and film This volume is a study of eight major novels from the postwar period (1945–65) in conjunction with the films made from them…
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The grammar of English infinitives with Czech comparison This book aims to clarify some puzzles that have been topical in formal linguistics for many decades now. It concerns the status of English and, for comparison,…
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Der von der Universität Glasgow herausgegebene Thesaurus dokumentiert Bedeutungsentwicklungen im englischen Vokabular: It consists of almost every recorded word in English from early medieval times to the present day, all arranged into detailed hierarchies of…
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„Der Roman „Stolz und Vorurteil“ ist einer der populärsten Klassiker der englischen Literatur. Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts schreibt die Autorin Jane Austen eine Liebesgeschichte – und kombiniert sie mit Sozialkritik. Elizabeth ist eine der fünf…
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English complex words: Exercises in construction and translation English Complex Words is a lively, essential companion for multilingual explorations of word-formation processes, both in English and across 40 other languages. It offers today’s broadest available…
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„The chef and co-founder of The River Cafe, Ruth Rogers, picks the life of the writer and activist James Baldwin. A writer, poet, playwright and activist, Baldwin was known as a trailblazing explorer of race,…
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„In 1920, a Dutch writer named Gerard Nolst Trenité published a poem in English titled The Chaos, designed to draw attention to English spelling and pronunciation — and all the confusion its absurdities have let…
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New Englishes, New Methods There is an ever-growing body of work on New Englishes, and the time has come to take stock of how research on varieties of English is carried out. The contributions in…
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„Jessica Mitford ist schon als Kind rebellisch – und bleibt es bis zu ihrem Tod am 23. Juli 1996. Statt in der starren Welt der britischen Aristokratie zu verharren, macht sie als gesellschaftskritische Autorin Karriere.…
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The Modern American Poetry Site is devoted to the teaching and study of modern and contemporary American poetry with particular emphasis on original and excerpted scholarship about key poems, poets, and contexts. This criticism is…