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Urban literacy in the Nordic Middle Ages This volume approaches the theme of ‘urban literacy’ in the Nordic Middle Ages from various angles of research, including history, archaeology, philology, and runology. This volume explores literacy…
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Words, books, images, and the long Eighteenth Century The essays collected in this volume engage in a conversation among lexicography, the culture of the book, and the canonization and commemoration of English literary figures and…
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A sociolinguistic history of British English lexicography A Sociolinguistic History of British English Lexicography traces the evolution of British English dictionaries from their earliest roots to the end of the 20th century by adopting both…
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Error in Shakespeare: Shakespeare in error The traditional view of Shakespeare’s mastery of the English language is alive and well today. This is an effect of the eighteenth-century canonisation of his works, and subsequently Shakespeare…
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Dreams, sleep, and Shakespeare’s genresThis book explores how Shakespeare uses images of dreams and sleep to define his dramatic worlds. Surveying Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, histories, and late plays, it argues that Shakespeare systematically exploits early…
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Aging, duration, and the English novel: growing old from Dickens to WoolfThe rapid onset of dementia after an illness, the development of gray hair after a traumatic loss, the sudden appearance of a wrinkle in…
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Idioms and ambiguity in context: phrasal and compositional readings of idiomatic expressionsIdioms have long been of interest to research in linguistics as well as literary studies. In the existing research, however, the aesthetic productivity of…
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„The story that inspired Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the tale of Amleth, the prince of Denmark. A ton of death, some cryptic non-riddles, and copious amounts of poop smearing serve as the starting point for one of…
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Jane Austen and William Shakespeare: a love affair in literature, film and performanceThis volume explores the multiple connections between the two most canonical authors in English, Jane Austen and William Shakespeare. The collection reflects on…
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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…