Miriam weinmann (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Trier (Fachbereich II: Anglistik), course: Historical Semantics, language: English, abstract: This work will shed some light on how the French language has made its way onto the North American continent. Furthermore it will present examples which illustrate the influence French had on American and Canadian English lexis. In addition, the special language situation in Canada, especially in Quebec, will be illuminated in the last section.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Trier, course: Literaturwissenschaftliches Kolloquium, language: English, abstract: The precise date for the composition of Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice' is unknown (Cerasano 97), but it must have been written 'sometime between 1596 and 1598' (Gross 19). It was first printed in 1600 (Cerasano 2), with the title: 'The most excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. With the extreame crueltie of Shylocke the Iewe towards the sayd Merchant, in cutting a iust pound of his fleshe: and the obtayning of Portia by the choyse of three chests. As it hath beene divers times acted by the Lord Chamberlaine his servants' (Alexander 8). This title might give the one or other reader food for thought. It implies that Shakespeare's contemporaries must have seen the play, especially the character Shylock, 'in dissimilar terms' from us nowadays (Cerasano 55). The following work will shed some light on the changes in reception and interpretation of 'The Merchant of Venice', which have developed from the time of its creation until today, which is an absolutely natural process, as 'texts change with time and audience' (Alexander 90). To get to the bottom of these changes, especially the character Shylock and the attitudes of the audiences of the different centuries towards him have to be brought into focus. This work will show in what ways these attitudes and thus the reception have changed and where these changes derive from. In addition to that, a selection of suggestions made by twentieth-century critics for interpreting the play, as it might have been meant to be by Shakespeare, will be introduced. His underlying intention has been debated over very much, which has given rise to an abundance of divergent interpretations, especially about how Shylock has to be assessed and how Shakespeare himself saw him. To find answers, we have to enter 'into Elizabethan attitudes and beliefs' and theatrical conventions which have influenced him, because 'an author can only be properly understood in the context of his own times' (Gross 181) and 'the more knowledge [.] we bring to it the richer our reading is likely to be' (Moody 20).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Examination Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Trier, language: English, abstract: The work analyzes the way Gilman and Chopin respectively deal with nature and gender in 'Herland' and 'The Awakening', as these subject matters are central to both works, and the issue of gender seems to superficially affiliate the works as both feminist works. The focuses are, firstly, on how they depict the different genders and portray their respective natures and, secondly, on what kind of relationship each of them devises between humans and nature, that is, the role they assign to nature in its different manifestations-its physical appearance and natural processes, as well as human's inner nature-in each work. Moreover, the thesis points out contrasts between the respective depictions and provides explanations for these by drawing on personal convictions of Chopin and Gilman, as these are the key to achieving a full understanding of each of the works and of the respective underlying motivations. Thus, some of the authors' differences in conviction are clarified, thereby distinguishing them from each other.The first section provides important background information concerning prevalent convictions about the nature of the different genders in Chopin's and Gilman's time, as well as where those convictions originated in and how they affected men's and women's respective roles in American society then. To be familiar with this historical and cultural background is essential for a proper understanding of both works, as it constitutes the background on which both authors drew for 'Herland' and 'The Awakening', and to which both works can be understood as a reaction, albeit in different ways. In two subsequent sections, an analysis of each of the works with regard to the conception of nature and gender follows, and the final section deals with the said contrasts.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 1,0, Universität Trier, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In den frühen Jahren seines Bestehens wurde Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice' der literarischen Gattung der Komödie zugeordnet. Diese Zuordnung wurde im Laufe der Epochen bis zur heutigen Zeit immer wieder umstritten. Die vorliegende Arbeit beleuchtet die Gründe für die Schwierigkeit einer eindeutigen Zuordnung des Dramas zu einer der literarischen Gattungen und unternimmt im Anschluss an eine systematische Untersuchung tragischer und komischer Elemente des Stückes den Versuch, eine angemessene Gattungsbezeichnung zu finden. …