Schlagwort: Englisch
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BBC Radio 4 “Great Lives”: James Baldwin
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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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Podcast “99% Invisible”: “Corpse, Corps, Horse and Worse”
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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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Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Anglistik 2023.8
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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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WDR ZeitZeichen zu Jessica Mitford
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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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Kennen Sie schon … die “Modern American Poetry Site”?
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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…
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Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Anglistik 2023.6
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The Hidden History of Coined Words How are words coined? That provides the focus of The Hidden History of Coined Words. Based on extensive research, its author, Ralph Keyes, has determined that successful neologisms are as likely…
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Open-Access-Bücher zur anglistischen Literaturwissenschaft
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In der letzten Zeit sind u.a. diese frei verfügbaren Titel erschienen: Equine medicine and popular romance in late medieval England Francine McGregorhttps://doi.org/10.1163/9789004538405 Equine Medicine and Popular Romance in Late Medieval England explores a seldom-studied trove…
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SWR 2 Wissen: “Scott Fitzgerald – Das Leben, ein Liebesbeweis”
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“F. Scott Fitzgerald: Kein anderer US-amerikanischer Autor hat das Leben der Roaring Twenties so detailliert und schillernd dargestellt wie er. Besonders bekannt und spektakulär verfilmt – Der große Gatsby.” (SWR, Astrid Mayerle) Sie können die…
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Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Anglistik 2023.5
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How adjectival can a participle be? Subsective gradience in English 2nd participles Most analyses of the English passive (formed with be + V-ed) claim that there is a verbal passive and an adjectival passive. How…
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BBC Radio 4 “Great Lives”: William Hazlitt
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“Actor, comedian and Author Ben Miller discusses the colourful, complicated and uncompromising life of William Hazlitt. Born in 1778 William Hazlitt is considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the…
