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In der deutschen Erinnerungskultur ist die Novemberrevolution von 1918/19 heute kaum noch prsent. Die zahlreichen Romane, die dieses Ereignis thematisieren und von denen einige bei ihrem Erscheinen auf groe Resonanz stieen, sind inzwischen ebenfalls berwiegend in Vergessenheit geraten und haben auch in der Literaturwissenschaft wenig Aufmerksamkeit gefunden. Der vorliegende Band mchte diese Forschungslcke schlieen. Er bietet Einzelinterpretationen zu 19 einschlgigen Werken, die als Versuche aufgefasst werden, jeweils spezifische, von parteilichen Interessen geprgte Versionen des historischen Geschehens mit literarischen Mitteln im kollektiven Gedchtnis zu verankern. Die Romane aus der Weimarer Zeit erweisen sich dabei als bemerkenswerte Zeugnisse aktueller parteipolitischer und ideologischer Auseinandersetzungen, die ber unterschiedliche Interpretationen der jngsten Vergangenheit ausgetragen werden, whrend die nach 1933 entstandenen Texte vornehmlich gegen das fortschreitende Vergessen der fr die deutsche Geschichte ungemein folgenreichen Revolutionsereignisse anschreiben. Besonderes Gewicht legen die hier versammelten Analysen auf den vielschichtigen Zusammenhang von Geschichtsdeutung, politisch-ideologischer Wirkungsabsicht und literarischen Strategien, der die behandelten Romane kennzeichnet.

Features essays that focus on the multi-faceted relationship between German/Austrian literature and the cinema screen. This book includes Scholars from Ireland, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Portugal, USA and Canada who present critical readings of a range of transpositions of German-language texts to film.

Presents a linguistic definition of professional documents, describing their different types and genres. This title focuses on the mental mechanisms involved in written production in the workplace.

Contains 13 essays, mostly written by American university-based professors of English, Hispanic language and literature, and women's studies, focusing on a variety of themes relating to lesbian and * literature and the work of * and lesbian authors. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News Contains 13 essays, mostly written by American university-based professors of English, Hispanic language and literature, and women's studies, focusing on a variety of themes relating to lesbian and * literature and the work of * and lesbian authors. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News

The articles in Contextualized Stylistics , written especially to honour the work of Peter Verdonk, one of the leading figures in the field of stylistics over the last twenty years, represent the state of the art in literary linguistics. A wide range of approaches, from traditional stylistic analysis to innovative new directions, is to be found here in literary contexts as varied as the writings of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Pope, Sterne, Browning, Yeats, Auden, Joyce, British surrealist poetry, urban and political graffiti, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jane Gardam, contemporary Anglo-Irish fiction, modern comic satire and Flann O'Brien.Among the contributors are some of the foremost theorists and practitioners working in the field Walter Nash, Peter Stockwell, Willie van Peer, Keith Green, Tony Bex, Michael Burke, Mick Short, Jonathan Culpeper, Elena Semino, Michael Toolan, Jean-Jacques Weber, Gerard Steen, Henry Widdowson, and Paul Simpson. Olga Fischer and Katie Wales contribute a Foreword, and Ronald Carter an Afterword. A number of Professor Verdonk's colleagues have also contributed articles from a more literary perspective. This book is an essential addition to the personal library of any researcher interested in the interface and connections between language and literature, and it would make an excellent course reader for undergraduate students in both literary and linguistic studies.