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 coverage of English prefixation, suffixation … Weiterlesen
„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, class and sexuality in America … Weiterlesen
„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 loose upon the world. It … Weiterlesen
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 this volume critically explore the … Weiterlesen
„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. „Von meinen Töchtern ist eine … Weiterlesen
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 accompanied by images, media, and … Weiterlesen
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 to be created by chance … Weiterlesen
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 of English veterinary manuals, illuminating … Weiterlesen
„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 Sendung aus dem Jahr 2016, … Weiterlesen
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 can the same form express … Weiterlesen
„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 English language, but for centuries, … Weiterlesen
Unbelief in interwar literary culture: doubting moderns Unbelief offers a new account of the relationship between literary and secularist scenes of writing in interwar Britain. Organized secularism has sometimes been seen as a phenomenon that lived and died with the … Weiterlesen
„„Ich bin eine erstklassige Schriftstellerin zweiter Güte“, hat Vicki Baum, geboren 1888, von sich gesagt. Ihr Erfolgsroman „Menschen im Hotel“ wurde mit Greta Garbo verfilmt und prägte ein ganzes Genre.“ (Bayern 2, Brigitte Kohn) Sie können die Sendung über den … Weiterlesen
Die Library of Congress hat über Jahrzehnte eine große Audio-Sammlung zur englischen Literatur aufgebaut, die in Teilen bereits online verfügbar ist: Listen to audio-recorded readings of former Consultants in Poetry Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks and Robert Frost; Nobel Laureates Mario … Weiterlesen
Particles in German, English, and beyond Germanic languages have been recognized as having not only intensifying or focus particles, but also so-called modal particles. The relevant items are specialized discourse markers joined by characteristic syntactic properties. After an introductory overview … Weiterlesen