Bücher der Reihe Austrian Studies in English

This collection adopts a cognitive approach to the study of drama. Analyses range from the medieval stage to 21st century Anglophone drama and provide a cognitive reading of characterisation, interiority, performativity, decoding strategies, empathy, immersion, reader manipulation and audience control.

Fashionable Queens comprises a variety of essays dealing with the relationship of women and fashion. It offers a new way of thinking of publically significant women, who exert, and also subvert, their power through their attire and thereby negotiate notions of body, power, and gender.

The book covers the modelling of language variation, post-colonial language contact, forms/functions of ELF, intergenerational conflicts of bilingual Holocaust refugees, hip hop discourse of Tirolian adolescents, contacts between literature, science and the arts, high art and mass culture, childhood and violence in current crime fiction.

Cultural Studies of Drink. Drink, Alcohol and the Work of Cultural Representation. Alcohol (ab)use as a means of inspiration or artistic blockage. Writers and Alcohol. Life writing. Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Lawrence Osborne, Dylan Thomas, Kingsley Amis, Brendan Behan, Terence Rattigan, Eugene O'Neill, John Niven

The fact that English has always borrowed heavily from other languages is well known. However, the systemic long-term effects of the processes involved in such contacts are under-researched. This collection of articles takes a more wide-spanning approach, looking at various periods and phenomena across the centuries. The volume focusses on language contact seen as cultural contact, especially with Scandinavia and France, as well as on specific text types from times ranging from Old English to the twentieth century.The volume aims at advancing insight on the ways in which contacts with other languages and cultures influenced the English language as a whole. The book provides new reflections on borrowing and lexical innovation as cultural choices bound to different textual traditions.