English Language and Literatures

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Jennifer Witte Lesewerthaltungen im Übergang von der Schule an die Universität

Eine qualitative Längsschnittstudie

Die Studie befasst sich mit der Entwicklung von lesebezogenen Deutungsmustern. Rekonstruiert wird die Dynamik von Werthaltungen gegenüber Lesen, Literatur und Texten in einer biographischen Übergangssituation. Hierzu wurden biographische Erzählungen in Form narrativer Interviews analysiert. Tamar Barbakadze Open Access

Catherine Colomb’s VISION OF TIME: in Dialogue with Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf

This monograph draws on the Swiss French writer Catherine Colomb’s modernist, avant-gardist and poetical representation of themes of central contemporary relevance including time, memory and perception. Reading her work next to Proust’s and Woolf’s writings and in light of the broader culture of her time make Colomb a major novelist of our age. Virginia L. Lewis The Novels of Zsigmond Móricz in the Context of European Realism

A Thematic Approach

The Novels of Zsigmond Móricz is the first English-language monograph on one of Hungary’s—and Central Europe’s—most important modern authors. Gabriella Mazzon (ed.) Language Contact and the History of English

Processes and Effects on Specific Text-Types

The focus is on the history of contacts between English and other languages and on their effects, and especially on lexical innovation and its effects on the English vocabulary. The volume is a contribution to studies on the history of English, with special attention to language contact as cultural contact, particularly in specific text types. Emma Saggers Carnivalesque Inversion in the Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut

This book focuses on Kurt Vonnegut’s novels Player Piano (1952), Cat’s Cradle (1963), and Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), exploring the themes of Technology, Religion, and War through the literary theories of Mikhail Bakhtin.

Berlin., 2022. 482 S., 3 farb. Abb., 10 S/W-Abb., 2 Tab. Beiträge zur Literatur- und Mediendidaktik. Bd. 47

geb. ISBN 978-3-631-88729-5 CHF 101.– / €D 86.95 / €A 89.40 / € 81.30 / £ 67.– / US-$ 97.95

eBook (SUL) ISBN 978-3-631-88730-1 CHF 101.– / €D 86.95 / €A 89.40 / € 81.30 / £ 67.– / US-$ 97.95 Bern, 2022. 288 pp.

pb. ISBN 978-3-0343-4588-0 CHF 70.– / €D 59.95 / €A 61.60 / € 56.10 / £ 46.– / US-$ 67.95 New York, Oxford, 2023. XII, 166 pp. Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature. Vol. 140

hb. ISBN 978-1-4331-6768-3 CHF 93.– / €D 80.95 / €A 82.50 / € 75.– / £ 60.– / US-$ 89.95

eBook (SUL) ISBN 978-1-4331-6774-4 CHF 93.– / €D 80.95 / €A 82.50 / € 75.– / £ 60.– / US-$ 89.95 Berlin, 2023. 258 pp., 13 fig. b/w, 14 tables. Austrian Studies in English. Vol. 107

hb. ISBN 978-3-631-84662-9 CHF 70.– / €D 59.95 / €A 61.60 / € 56.10 / £ 46.– / US-$ 67.95

eBook (SUL) ISBN 978-3-631-89355-5 CHF 70.– / €D 59.95 / €A 61.70 / € 56.10 / £ 46.– / US-$ 67.95 New York, 2023. X, 206 pp.

hb. ISBN 978-1-4331-8821-3 CHF 98.– / €D 84.95 / €A 87.10 / € 79.20 / £ 64.– / US-$ 94.95

eBook (SUL) ISBN 978-1-4331-8842-8 CHF 98.– / €D 84.95 / €A 87.10 / € 79.20 / £ 64.– / US-$ 94.95