Browsing NJES : Nordic Journal of English Studies (2004-2008) by Issue Date
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Pragmatic markers in spoken interlanguage
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REVIEW: Claire Asquith (2004), Shadowplay. Richard Wilson (2004), Secret Shakespeare
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Moors, Social Anxiety and Horror in Thomas Rawlins's The Rebellion
(Uni-pub, Norway (hard copy), 2005-12)In her article, Anna Fåhraeus contextualizes race within multiple images of social horror in Thomas Rawlins’s little-discussed tragedy The Rebellion (1640). While racial representation of the Moors in the play adheres to ... -
The Taming of a Shrew: Composition as Induction to Authorship
(Uni-pub, Norway (hard copy), 2005-12)Roy Eriksen’s essay asks the question whether the notoriously unattributed The Taming of a Shrew might not in fact bear the trace of Marlowe’s hand. Recognising the tendency of critics to dismiss the play as a mere “bad ... -
"Underplayed Rivalry": Patronage and the Marlovian Subtext of Summer's Last Will and Testament
(Uni-pub, Norway (hard copy), 2005-12)Per Sivefors’s article addresses the issue of Nashe and authorship from the angle of imitation and literary competition. Arguing that Thomas Nashe imitated Marlowe in his only surviving play, Summer’s Last Will and Testament, ... -
Disgusting John Marston: Sensationalism and the Limits of a Post-Modern Marston
(Uni-pub, Norway (hard copy), 2005-12)Georgia Brown’s article takes issue with the idea, argued by postmodern criticism, that Marston’s dramatic texts are primarily or exclusively loci of parody, playfulness and self-reflexivity. Instead, Brown suggests, we ... -
George Chapman's "Oedipus Complex": Intertextual Patterns in The Conspiracy and The Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron
(Uni-pub, Norway (hard copy), 2005-12)Gunilla Florby’s essay situates George Chapman’s two-part play The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron at the intersection between topical reference and classical intertext. In particular, Florby investigates ... -
When the Golden Bough Breaks: Folk Drama and the Theatre Historian
(Uni-pub, Norway (hard copy), 2005-12)The title of Tom Pettitt's essay alludes to the massive impact on theatre historians of Sir James Frazer's monumental work on comparative anthropology, The Golden Bough (1890). It fostered the thesis that English folk drama ... -
REVIEW: Anna Swärdh (2003), Rape and Religion in English Renaissance Literature
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Thomas Lodge and Elizabethan Republicanism
(Uni-pub, Norway (hard copy), 2005-12)Andrew Hadfield’s article seeks to locate Thomas Lodge’s The Wounds of Civil War in the context of early modern English republicanism—a context which, Hadfield argues, was also to have a great deal of importance to the ... -
REVIEW: Dypedah, Magne, Hilde Hasselgård and Berit Loken. 2006. Introducing English Grammar. Bergen: Fagbok forlaget.
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Justified pride? Metaphors of the word pride in English language corpora, 1418–1991
(Gothenburg University, 2006-09)This article deals with the words pride, proud and proudly in a cognitive linguistic framework, addressing the questions: (1) What causes pride? (2) Which other concepts are associated with pride? (3) What are people’s ... -
Live, Moribund, and Dead Metaphors
(2006-09-14)Prototypical instances of live, moribund and dead metaphors can be distinguished, but the peripheral parts of these categories intersect in an indeterminate way because of contextual modifications or interpretative differences ... -
Justified Pride? Metaphors of the Word Pride in English Language Corpora, 1418–1991
(2006-09-14)This article deals with the words pride, proud and proudly in a cognitive linguistic framework, addressing the questions: (1) What causes pride? (2) Which other concepts are associated with pride? (3) What are people’s ... -
Electrifying Performances and Brains that Fuse: Metaphor and the Cognitive Function of Electricity
(2006-09-14)In this paper, written within the framework of cognitive linguistics, metaphorical expressions involving electricity as a source domain are discussed. The majority of the expressions are from The Oxford English Dictionary, ... -
The Creative Use of Idioms in Advertising
(2006-09-14)This paper is concerned with the cognitive mechanisms involved in the creative exploitation of idiomatic expressions in advertisements. In line with Grady et al. (1999), the analysis is based on the complementing theories ... -
Dwelling upon Metaphors: The Translation of William Gass’s Novellas
(2006-09-15)This paper presents a contextual analysis of metaphor translation in literary discourse, with reference to William Gass’s Cartesian Sonata & Other Novellas (New York: Knopf, 1998). Due to its deep formal investigation of ... -
Grammatical Metaphor/Metonymy in the Treaty Establishing A Constitution for Europe: A Comparison between the English and Swedish Versions
(2006-09-15)In order to investigate the use of grammatical metaphor in comparable English and Swedish texts, the English and Swedish versions of the proposed Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe were analysed. Results show ...