In der letzten Zeit sind u.a. diese frei verfügbaren Titel erschienen: Investigating Understanding: Annotating Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 43” Leonie Kirchhoffhttps://doi.org/10.30965/9783657795079 With a fresh and innovative perspective, Leonie Kirchhoff introduces an interdisciplinary xamination of literary understanding, drawing upon cognitive, educational, and literary … Weiterlesen
„Sie sind das berühmteste Liebespaar der Weltliteratur, Stoff zahlloser Theaterstücke, von Musik und Kinofilmen – und längst Synonym für alle herzergreifenden Liebesbeziehungen: Romeo und Julia. William Shakespeares Liebesdrama hat sie zur berühmtesten Liebesgeschichte aller Zeiten gemacht.“ (Bayern 2, Frank Halbach, … Weiterlesen
Nordeuropa: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium Die Politik, die Kultur, die Menschen Nordeuropas beeinflussen seit Jahrtausenden die gesamteuropäische Begegnungsgeschichte maßgebend, was sich in der wissenschaftlichen Beachtung nur unzureichend spiegelt. Das interdisziplinäre Handbuch macht auf Defizite aufmerksam und bildet erstmals umfassend … Weiterlesen
„Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Shakespeare’s famous tragedy, written in the early 1590s after a series of histories and comedies. His audience already knew the story of the feuding Capulets and Montagues in Verona and the fate of the … 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
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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 Duncan as he sleeps, a … Weiterlesen
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 in the medieval towns of … Weiterlesen
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 their works in the long … Weiterlesen
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 sociolinguistic and lexicographical perspectives. It … Weiterlesen
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 has come to be perceived … Weiterlesen
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 modern physiological, religious, and political … Weiterlesen
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 the brow of a spurned … Weiterlesen
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 idiomatic ambiguity has never been … Weiterlesen
„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 the greatest works in the … Weiterlesen