SubjectsLiterature & Literary Studies / English literature & literary studies
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English Text Construction
Edited by Lieselotte Brems, Lobke Ghesquière and Brecht de Groote
ISSN 1874-8767 | E‑ISSN 1874‑8775
Interdisciplinary approaches to the language of pop culture
Edited by Rocío Montoro and Valentin Werner
Special issue of English Text Construction 16:2 (2023) v, 152 pp.
Othello in European Culture
Edited by Elena Bandín Fuertes, Francesca Rayner and Laura Campillo Arnaiz
This volume argues that a focus on the European reception of Othello represents an important contribution to critical work on the play. The chapters in this volume examine non-anglophone translations and performances, alternative ways of distinguishing between texts, adaptations and versions, as… read more[Shakespeare in European Culture, 3] 2022. xi, 270 pp.
Voicing Absences/Presences in a Damaged World
Edited by Jessica Maufort and Marc Maufort
Special issue of English Text Construction 15:2 (2022) v, 83 pp.
Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English: Literary and linguistic approaches
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen
This volume traces the multifaceted concept of manners in the history of English from the late medieval through the early and late modern periods right up to the present day. It focuses in particular on transgressions of manners and norms of behaviour as an analytical tool to shed light on the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 312] 2020. viii, 298 pp.
Style, Rhetoric and Creativity in Language: In memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015)
Edited by Paul Simpson
This commemorative volume comprises ten essays which celebrate the work of Walter (Bill) Nash. Bill Nash was an extraordinary scholar – a classicist, parodist, critic, musician, linguist, poet, polyglot, humourist and novelist. He was as adroit in his reading of the Old Norse sagas as he was in his… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 34] 2019. ix, 205 pp.
Revisiting Shakespeare's Language
Edited by Annalisa Baicchi, Roberta Facchinetti, Silvia Cacchiani and Antonio Bertacca
Special issue of English Text Construction 11:1 (2018) v, 168 pp.
Grammar, usage and discourse: Functional studies offered to Kristin Davidse
Edited by Lieven Vandelanotte, Wout Van Praet and Lieselotte Brems
Special issue of English Text Construction 10:2 (2017) v, 159 pp.
Romeo and Juliet in European Culture
Edited by Juan F. Cerdá, Dirk Delabastita and Keith Gregor
With its roots deep in ancient narrative and in various reworkings from the late medieval and early modern period, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet has left a lasting trace on modern European culture. This volume aims to chart the main outlines of this reception process in the broadest sense by… read more[Shakespeare in European Culture, 1] 2017. xi, 331 pp.
Experimentalism as Reciprocal Communication in Contemporary American Poetry: John Ashbery, Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman
Elina Siltanen
The poems of John Ashbery, Lyn Hejinian and Ron Silliman may seem to offer endless small details of expression, observation, thought and narrative which fail to hang together even from one line to the next. But as Elina Siltanen shows here, this extraordinary flow of uncoordinated detail can… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 4] 2016. x, 210 pp.
The dynamicity of communication below, around and above the clause
Edited by Ben Clarke and Jorge Arús-Hita
Special issue of English Text Construction 9:1 (2016) v, 219 pp.
A Corpus Linguistic Approach to Literary Language and Characterization: Virginia Woolf's The Waves
Giuseppina Balossi
This book focusses on computer methodologies as a way of investigating language and character in literary texts. Both theoretical and practical, it surveys investigations into characterization in literary linguistics and personality in social psychology, before carrying out a computational analysis… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 18] 2014. xxi, 277 pp.
Multilingualism in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries
Edited by Dirk Delabastita and Ton Hoenselaars
Special issue of English Text Construction 6:1 (2013) vi, 212 pp.
Intersections of Intersubjectivity
Edited by Lieselotte Brems, Lobke Ghesquière and Freek Van de Velde
Special issue of English Text Construction 5:1 (2012) v, 152 pp.
Textual choices and discourse genres: Creating meaning through form
Edited by Barbara Dancygier and José Sanders
Special issue of English Text Construction 3:2 (2010) v, 192 pp.
A History of Literature in the Caribbean: Volume 2: English- and Dutch-speaking regions
Edited by A. James Arnold
For the first time the Dutch-speaking regions of the Caribbean and Suriname are brought into fruitful dialogue with another major American literature, that of the anglophone Caribbean. The results are as stimulating as they are unexpected. The editors have coordinated the work of a distinguished… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XV] 2001. x, 672 pp.
Writing in Nonstandard English
Edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Gunnel Melchers and Päivi Pahta
This book investigates linguistic variation as a complex continuum of language use from standard to nonstandard. In our view, these notions can only be established through mutual definition, and they cannot exist without the opposite pole. What is considered standard English changes according to… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 67] 2000. viii, 403 pp.
The Virtues of Language: History in language, linguistics and texts. Papers in memory of Thomas Frank
Edited by Dieter Stein and Rosanna Sornicola
The volume contains 13 specially written specialist articles on a wide range of subjects within the ambit of the history of the English language and prominent literary uses of it. In uniting linguistic and literary pursuits in a single volume, it follows the noble Neapolitan scholars research… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 87] 1998. viii, 232 pp.
The Muzzled Muse: Literature and censorship in South Africa
Margreet de Lange
“The long history of censorship is a parallel and equally powerful history of literature. Censors bear witness to the power of the word even more forcefully than the writers and the readers they consider dangerous.” (Index on Censorship 6/1996)A critical assessment of literature produced under… read more[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 32] 1997. x, 181 pp.
Scots and its Literature
J. Derrick McClure
Among the topics treated in this collection are the status of Scots as a national language; the orthography of Scots; the actual and potential degree of standardisation of Scots; the debt of the vocabulary of Scots to Gaelic; the use of Scots in fictional dialogue; and the development of Scots as a… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G14] 1995. vi, 218 pp.
European Shakespeares. Translating Shakespeare in the Romantic Age: Selected papers from the conference on Shakespeare Translation in the Romantic Age, Antwerp, 1990
Edited by Dirk Delabastita and Lieven D’hulst
Where, when, and why did European Romantics take to Shakespeare? How about Shakespeare's reception in enduring Neoclassical or in popular traditions? And above all: which Shakespeare did these various groups promote? This collection of essays leaves behind the time-honoured commonplaces about… read more[Not in series, 66] 1993. 256 pp.
The Languages of Joyce: Selected Papers from the 11th International James Joyce Symposium Venice 1988
Edited by Rosa Maria Bollettieri Bosinelli, Carla Marengo and Christine van Boheemen
The papers collected in this volume capture some of the excitement of the 11th International James Joyce Symposium, held in Venice and Trieste, June 1988. ‘The contents of this book are by no means as restrictive as the title might suggest. The contributors explore not only Joyce’s ‘languages’ and… read more[Not in series, 54] 1992. xx, 277 pp.
'The Deeper Levels of Life an the Sense of Time and Place': John Cheevers Romanwerk zwischen Romance and Novel of Manners
Annegret Wemhöner
[Bochumer anglistische Studien, 21] 1988. viii, 178 pp.
Ordnung und Chaos: Das englische Restaurationsdrama 1660–1685
Elmar Lehmann
[Beihefte zu Poetica, 19] 1988. 194 pp.
A Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama
Vivian Salmon and Edwina Burness
In recent years the language of Shakespearean drama has been described in a number of publications intended mainly for the undergraduate student or general reader, but the studies in academic journals to which they refer are not always easily accessible even though they are of great interest to the… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 35] 1987. xx, 523 pp.
Mere Irish & Fíor-Ghael: Studies in the idea of Irish nationality, its literary expression and development
Joep Leerssen
The aim of this investigation is to reconsider the cultural confrontation between England and Ireland from a new methodological perspective, and to trace how this confrontation resulted in a particular notion, literary as well as political, of Irish nationality. read more[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 22] 1986. xv, 543 pp.
Tranquil Ecstasy: Mark Twains pastorale Neigung und ihre literarische Gestaltung
Karl Otto Strohmidel
[Bochumer anglistische Studien, 20] 1986. xiv, 302 pp.
Aviation Lore in Faulkner
Robert Harrison
William Faulkner was an aviation cadet in Canada in the closing days of WW I. He later owned his own airplane, and even put on a few air shows. When he wrote of flying, as he often did, it was with a great deal of expertise but little concern for the edification of his readers. The result is that… read more[Not in series, 21] 1985. (vi), viii, 195 pp. + ills.
Towards a Romantic Conception of Nature: Coleridge's Poetry up to 1803: A study in the history of ideas
H.R. Rookmaaker
This study describes in detail the development of Coleridge’s attitude to nature as it is reflected in his poetry. It analyses the different stages of Coleridge’s search for a meaningful relation to nature from an uncritical adoption of the eighteenth century conventions in his early poetry to a… read more[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 20] 1984. ix, 214 pp.
Singapore and Malaysia
John Platt, Heidi Weber and Mian Lian Ho
Over the years, the Englishes of Singapore and Malaysia have developed into varieties in their own right, ranging from the sub-varieties spoken by people with high levels of English-medium education and of higher socio-economic status. This text volume illustrates this from a range of examples of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, T4] 1983. iv, 138 pp.
The Afro-American Novel since 1960
Peter Bruck and Wolfgang Karrer
[Not in series - Grüner, 136] 1982. viii, 328 pp.
Carlyle and Jean Paul: Their Spiritual Optics
J.P. Vijn
It has always been thought difficult, if not impossible, to define what the philosophy of Carlyle was. Ever since the publication of Sartor Resartus in 1833-1834, the view that Carlyle had a theistic conception of the universe has been defended as well as opposed. At a time, therefore, when… read more[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 18] 1982. xii, 284 pp. + ills.
Keats, Poe, and the Shaping of Cortazar's Mythopoesis
Ana Hernandez Del Castillo
The Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar was clearly influenced by his predecessors John Keats and Edgar Allan Poe. However, to what extent? Which aspects of the two Romantics have been kept and which ones transformed by Cortázar’s imagination? And is there a common bond in the works of Keats and Poe… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 8] 1981. xii, 135 pp.
The Critical Reception of Shakespeare's 'Anthony and Cleopatra': From 1607 to 1905
Michael Steppat
[Bochumer anglistische Studien, 9] 1980. xvi, 619 pp.
The Black American Short Story in the 20th Century: A Collection of Critical Essays
Edited by Peter Bruck
This volume is a collection of essays on black short stories written between 1998 and 1976. It aims to say something about the black short story as a genre and the development of the racial situation in America as well. The primary aim is to introduce the reader to this long neglected genre of… read more[Not in series - Grüner, 133] 1977. vii, 209 pp.
Von der 'Store Front Church' zum 'American Dream': James Baldwin und der amerikanische Rassenkonflikt
Peter Bruck
[Bochumer anglistische Studien, 2] 1975. viii, 147 pp.