Anglistentag 2007 Münster

Klaus Stierstorfer (Ed.)

Anglistentag 2007 Münster. Proceedings

ISBN 978-3-86821-084-2, 492 S., kt., € 69,00 (2008)

(Proceedings of the Conference of the German Association of University Teachers of English, Bd. 29)

Klaus Stierstorfer (Münster)
Preface

Section I: Defining the Human: Animal-Human Relations in Literature

Anne-Julia Zwierlein (Bamberg)
Defining the Human: Animal-Human Relations in Literature. Introduction

Harriet Ritvo
The Animal Turn in British Studies

Jürgen R. Meyer (Halle)
"Italianate Englishmen" and the Renaissance 'Humanimal'

Virginia Richter (Berne)
Moving Machines, Suffering Creatures: Animals in 18th-Century Literature and Culture

Greta Olson (Freiburg)
Class and Race Bias in the Anti-Cruelty Discourse of the Early Eighteenth Century

Oliver Lindner (Leipzig)
'Stout Competitors': Man and Animal in Speculative Fiction, 1880-1910

Sonja Fielitz (Marburg)
"I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters. I never saw one alive before": The Cultural Construct of the Unicorn in 19th- to 21st-Century Texts

Beatrix Hesse (Bamberg)
Learning from Animals – T. H. White's King Arthur

Section II: The Documentary Turn

Christiane Schlote (Berne) and Eckart Voigts-Virchow (Siegen)
The Documentary Turn: Introduction

David Edgar (Birmingham)
Too True? The Achievements and Limitations of Fact-Based Theatre

Roger Lüdeke (Munich)
The Politics of 'Documentary Drama': Guantanamo: 'Honor Bound to Defend

Freedom' by Victoria Brittain and Gillian Slovo

Kathleen Starck (Osnabrück)
Much Ado about Nothing? The Production of Cultural Meaning and the Case of Rachel Corrie

Stefani Brusberg-Kiermeier (Paderborn)
"Many a Weary Mile Have I Gone With Herr Guillaume at My Side": Michael Frayn's Democracy as Docudrama

Gerd Bayer (Erlangen)
Fake Films as Media Criticism

Christian Huck (Erlangen)
Rockumentaries: Documenting Music on Film

Martin Doll
'Missing Lebanese Wars.' The Art Project The Atlas Group Archive and Its Endless Search for Means to 'Document' Traumatic Memories and Mental Realities

Section IV: Cognitive Approaches in Literature and Linguistic

Ralf Schneider (Bielefeld) and Monika Fludernik (Freiburg)
Cognitive Approaches in Literary Studies and Linguistics: Introduction

David S. Miall
Cognitive Poetics: From Interpreting to Experiencing what is Literary

Sven Strasen (Aachen)
Cultural Models, Cognitive Environments, and the Reading of Literary Texts: Towards a Cognitive Reinvigoration of Reader-Response Theory

Christoph Schubert (Würzburg)
Orientational Metaphors in Romantic Poetry: A Cognitive Semantic Perspective on Verticality

Beatrix Busse (Münster)
The Blend of WRITING IS MEDICINE in Paul Auster's The Brooklyn Follies and The Book of Illusions

Jochen Petzold (Freiburg)
The Subjectivity of Absence: Verbal Cues for Constructing an Individual Point of View in Poems with 'Hidden' Speakers

Pascal Fischer (Würzburg)
Trouble in the Family: Neoconservative Discourse on Transatlantic Relations

Margarete Rubik (Vienna)
Feeling by Proxy: Descriptions of Pain and Desire in Literary Texts

Alexander Bergs (Osnabrück)
Can We Take Construction Grammar Beyond Sneezing Napkins Off Tables?

Section V: Englishes in Contact

Lucia Kornexl (Rostock) and Andrea Sand (Trier)
Englishes in Contact: Introduction

Donald Winford (Columbus, Ohio)
The Interplay of 'Universals' and Contact-Induced Change in the Emergence of New Englishes

Stefan Thim (Potsdam)
The Rise of the Phrasal Verb in English: A Case of Scandinavian Influence?

Hildegard L.C. Tristram (Freiburg i. Brgs.)
Shifting Britons: The Impact of Late British on Medieval English

Lucia Siebers (Regensburg)

"I Don't Know Nothing on Cricket": Negative Concord – An Atypical L2 Feature?

Carolin Biewer (Heidelberg)
Concord Patterns in South Pacific Englishes: The Influence of New Zealand English and the Local Substrate

Angelika Lutz (Erlangen)
The Importance of French Influence for the Development of Modern English and German Word Formation

Joybrato Mukherjee (Gießen)
Sri Lankan English: Evolutionary Status and Epicentral Influence from Indian English

Peter Siemund and Lukas Pietsch (Hamburg)
Contact-Induced Change and Linguistic Universals: The Case of Irish English

Section VI: Varia

Wolfram R. Keller
Fresh Colors of Rhetoric: John Lydgate and Medieval English Nationhood

Till Kinzel (Berlin)
Benjamin Disraeli and Carl Schmitt's Political Theology

Sebastian Domsch (Munich)
18th-Century Man as Sex Object: Eliza Haywood and the Construction of Desirable Men

Katharina Böhm (Oxford)
Disciplining the Surplus Child: Malthusianism and Science in Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist

Anne Hoyer
Linguistic Changes of a Popular Scottish Comic

Christiane Brand (Gießen)
From 'Killer Bug' to 'Novel Coronavirus' – Collocational Variation, Lexical Priming and Institutionalisation in Scientific Discourse Popularisation

Daniela Wawra (Passau)
"America at its best": The Discoursive Construction of American Identity in the Inaugural Addresses of US-Presidents since 1789