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James Joyce: The Situation of Women in "Dubliners" in special View of "Eveline"
Seminar paper from the year 1994 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Englische Philologie), language: English, abstract: 1. Introduction. When James Joyce had finally completed Dubliners in 1908, he himself considered his first work of fiction, a collection of fifteen short stories, to be a scrupulously realistic portrait of the Irish middle-class society of his time - a "looking-glass" in which the people of Dublin could see themselves and their paralysis. To introduce the book's major theme of paralysis, Joyce wrote the following critical commentary on Dubliners : My intention was to write a chapter of moral ...
The Pennsylvania German English - the Language of the Pennsylvania Germans
Seminar paper from the year 1993 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Englische Philologie), course: Varieties of American English, language: English, abstract: The long persistence of Pennsylvania German English for nearly two centuries in an English-speaking territory which was settled by English, Scotch-Irish and Welsh as early as by Germans , naturally brought about a certain contact between English and German language that influenced both, the generally spoken English and the specific dialect formation that languages borrowed from each other. This paper is an attempt to show in how far this language contact has caused mutual language borrowings, which were by no means restricted to vocabulary items but also extended to phonological and syntactic features, having as well influential effects on intonational patterns.
James Joyce
Seminar paper from the year 1994 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Englische Philologie), language: English, abstract: 1. Introduction. When James Joyce had finally completed Dubliners in 1908, he himself considered his first work of fiction, a collection of fifteen short stories, to be a scrupulously realistic portrait of the Irish middle-class society of his time - a "looking-glass" in which the people of Dublin could see themselves and their paralysis. To introduce the book's major theme of paralysis, Joyce wrote the following critical commentary on Dubliners: My intention was to write a chapter of moral h...
Narcissistic Mothers in Modernist Literature
Narcissistic mothers are an important motif in modernist literature. Tracing its appearance in the works of writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, this book questions the dichotomous image of either benevolent or suffocating mother, which has pervaded religion, art and literature for centuries. Instead of focusing on the mother-child dyad as characterized primarily by maternal domination and the child' s submission, Marie Géraldine Rademacher insists on the definitional nuances of the term »narcissism« and considers the political and socio-economic context of the time in shaping these women's narcissistic behavior. The study thus inspires a more positive (re)reading of the protagonists.
Margaret Laurence's "The Loons". A Literary Approach to Native Literature
Essay from the year 1994 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Englische Philologie), course: Ethnicity in Canada (Übung), language: English, abstract: This essay discusses "The Loons" by Margaret Laurence as a literary approach to native literature. In telling the story of the heroine Piquette Tonnerre, a young halfbreed girl of French and Indian origins, Maragret Laurence draws heavily on a well-known issue in native literature, namely on the confrontation of two different cultures as embodied in the girl’s search for her identity.
Melville's 'Moby-Dick, Or the Whale' - an Attack on Calvinism
Seminar paper from the year 1994 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Englische Philologie), course: The Forms of Melville's Fiction, language: English, abstract: 1. Introduction The publication of Melville's Moby-Dick or, The Whale in 1851 caused a vast range of attitudes toward the book, approaching the novel in various ways. Among those, central motives of creation and quest played an important role in interpreting the author's masterpiece as a work that sought to reach new fundamental religious insights by challenging the Calvinist tradition of Melville's time. This paper is an attempt to show how far Melville's Moby-Dick succeeded in attacking the Calvinist principles of a theocratic and evil view of the world, constructing a literary scene of scepticism and bigotry that crosses the normal boundaries in its quest for what is beyond the universal system.
Die Autobiographie - zur Geschichte und Theorie einer Gattung
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 1995 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Italienische u. Sardische Sprache, Literatur, Landeskunde, Note: 3,0, Johannes Gutenberg-Universit t Mainz (Romanisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Aspekte autobiographischen und dokumentarischen Erz hlens bei zeitgen ssischen Autorinnen in Frankreich und Italien, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 1. Einleitung Die Autobiographie geh rt "zu den Neubildungen h herer Kultur-stufen," schreibt Georg Misch "und doch ruht sie] auf dem nat rlichsten Grunde, auf dem Bed rfnis nach Aussprache und dem entgegenkommenden Interesse der anderen Menschen, womit das Bed rfnis nach Selbstbehauptung der Menschen zusammengeht; sie ist selber eine Lebens u erun...
The Identity of Canadian English
Seminar paper from the year 1995 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Englische Philologie), course: Language and Identity, language: English, abstract: 1. Introduction The linguistic situation of Canadian identity has been subject of numerous debates and still there seems to be no real agreement on certain subject matters. Experts say that "for historical reasons, Canadian English [is] the type of English associated with Southern Ontario, formerly Upper Canada, [that] has become the basis for a national norm, an imperfectly described but recognized standard across Canada.... As such, it ... has spread widely across the country, to b...
Spontan gesprochene Sprache im linguistischen Vergleich mit der Theatersprache bei Jean-Paul Sartre
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 1996 im Fachbereich Französische Philologie - Linguistik, Note: 1,3, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Romanistik), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Vielseitigkeit gesprochener Sprache bietet der Diskursanalyse eine reichhaltige Basis zur linguistischen Beschreibung einzelsprachlicher Phänomene. Im Folgenden soll versucht werden, spontan gesprochene Sprache unter textuell-pragmatischem Gesichtspunkt im Vergleich zur Bühnensprache isoliert von der inhaltlichen Aussage zu betrachten. Zur Materialbasis der Untersuchung gehören sowohl Denise François' linguistisch motiviertes Corpus d'Argenteuil, eines der nach Koch/Oesterreicher (1990: 34) ergiebigsten Corpor...
Connecting Grammaticalisation
Grammar is seen as a complex sign system, and, as a consequence, grammatical change always comprises semantic change. The book introduces the concept of connecting grammaticalisation to describe the formation, restructuring and dismantling of such complex paradigms. It offers a broad general discussion of theoretical issues and three case studies
