Rude Britannia (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Gorji, Mina

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This timely and authoritative exploration of rudeness in modern English draws together experts from the academic world and the media - journalists, linguists, lexicographers and literary critics - and argues that rudeness is an important cultural phenomenon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136009983
• Artikelnr.: 38452549

Autorenporträt

Mina Gorji is a Research Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford University, where her research interests include literary language and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature. She is the author of the forthcoming title John Clare and the Nature of Poetry.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction, Mina Gorji
Part 1 The vulgar tongue
Chapter 2 'The indefinable something', Lynda Mugglestone
Chapter 3 Poubellication, Valentine Cunningham
Chapter 4 Rude words, Tom Paulin
Part 2 British bawdy
Chapter 5 Orwell's dirty postcards, David Pascoe
Chapter 6 How Vizmade Britain ruder, Theo Tait
Chapter 7 Bosom of the nation, Rebecca Loncraine
Part 3 The limits of rudeness
Chapter 8 When Saturday comes, Crowley Tony
Chapter 9 Redefining rudeness, Deborah Cameron Index