"False Friends" sind Wörter, die gleich oder ähnlich klingen, aber ganz unterschiedliche Bedeutungen haben: "actual" ist nicht die Übersetzung von "aktuell"? "to become" ist nicht "bekommen" und ein Dom ist auch kein "dome". In diesem kurzen Wörterbuch sind die 1500 wichtigsten False Friends zusammengestellt, mit Übersetzungen und Beispielsätzen - damit sie sich besser einprägen.

Eine der wichtigsten Stimmen der Gegenwart aus Kanada: am 7. Juni 2020 in Berlin. Am 7. Juni 2020 wird die Berliner Rede zur Poesie von der 1950 in Toronto geborenen kanadischen Dichterin, Essayistin, Übersetzerin und Klassischen Philologin Anne Carson gehalten. Carson lehrte von 1980 bis 1987 an der McGill University, der University of Michigan und der Princeton University. Sie wird in Kanada und den USA als eine der wichtigsten Stimmen der Gegenwart gefeiert. In ihren Büchern vermischt sie die Formen von Poesie, Essay, Prosa, Kritik, Übersetzungen, dramatischem Dialog, Fiktion und Non-Fiction. Anne Carson wird sich in ihrer Rede intensiv mit den verschiedenen Formen von Poesie, Prosa und bildender Kunst auseinandersetzen.

Gathers the Nobel Prize winning poet and dramatist's short prose into one volume that affords the reader a view of Beckett's development as an artist

This collection of short stories collates work written in English by Filipino writers before the outbreak of the war in the Pacific.

The first anthology of critical interpretations of major Canadian short stories.

Ready-to-use, high interest stories with mini-lessons and activities that help students understand literary elements and use them effectively in their writing.

An ever-increasing number of surgical procedures are now being performed in ambulatory settings. Hospital beds are at a premium and resources are becoming scarcer. This atlas guides readers through all the practicalities: it looks at the potential of short-stay surgery, how to set it up and how it may be relevant to all surgical specialities. Specialists well- known in their sphere discuss and illustrate operations that can be performed without a stay in hospital. The topics covered will become more and more relevant as time goes by, and those who read this book will be able to stay well ahead of the game. It is designed to help surgeons plan for the future and discover the vast potential for this form of surgery.

The stories in this collection provide parents of special needs kids with a dose of both laughter and reality. Featuring works by so-called alternative parents who have attempted to move away from mainstream thought, this anthology carefully considers the implications of raising children with disabilities. From professional writers to novice storytellers, including original essays by Robert Rummel-Hudson, Ayun Halliday, and Kerry Cohen, this assortment of authentic, shared experiences from parents in the know is a partial antidote to the stories that misrepresent, ridicule, and objectify disabled children and their parents.

Provides a detailed insight into short fibers of different types (metallic and organic) in a polymer matrix, as well as reporting on the design considerations and applications of such composites. It relates unparalleled research into a diverse range of composites.

Highlights the writers who have contributed to the development of the American short story ranging from Washington Irving to O. Henry. Bibliogs

THE STORIES: A delightful collection of monologues for young actors, SHORT AND SWEET explores subjects as diverse as bullies, first kisses, fat camp and diaries, and even turns an unblinking eye towards that most vexing of questions--how you can lov

«America is now wholly given over to a d - d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash...» Taking Hawthorne's famous 1855 complaint about women writers as a starting point for consideration, Scribbling Women and the Short Story Form is a collection of fourteen critical essays about the short fiction of British and American women writers. This anthology takes a feminist approach, examining the liberating possibilities for women writers of the form of the short story, a genre often associated with alienation or subversion (the writer Frank O'Connor describes the form as marginal or «outlaw»). Covering the work of selected women writers from the 1850s through the late twentieth century, this collection includes essays on well-known authors such as Rebecca Harding Davis, Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin, Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cynthia Ozick, and Ursula K. Le Guin, alongside essays on Harriett Prescott Spofford, Ruth Stewart, L. T. Meade, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Zitkala-Sa, Sui Sin Far, and Lydia Davis, less-known authors whose stories offer rich ground for consideration.

Reading Faulkner's Best Short Stories provides readers with an introduction to Faulkner as a short story writer and offers close readings of twelve of his best short stories selected on the basis of literary quality as representatives of his most successful achievements within the genre.

In spite of the importance of the idea of the 'tale' within Romantic-era literature, short fiction of the period has received little attention from critics. Contextualizing British short fiction within the broader framework of early nineteenth-century print culture, Tim Killick argues that authors and publishers sought to present short fiction in book-length volumes as a way of competing with the novel as a legitimate and prestigious genre. Beginning with an overview of the development of short fiction through the late eighteenth century and analysis of the publishing conditions for the genre, including its appearance in magazines and annuals, Killick shows how Washington Irving's hugely popular collections set the stage for British writers. Subsequent chapters consider the stories and sketches of writers as diverse as Mary Russell Mitford and James Hogg, as well as didactic short fiction by authors such as Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, and Amelia Opie. His book makes a convincing case for the evolution of short fiction into a self-conscious, intentionally modern form, with its own techniques and imperatives, separate from those of the novel.

The short film is a unique narrative art form that, while lending itself to experimentation, requires tremendous discipline in following traditional filmic considerations. This book takes the student and novice screenwriter through the storytelling process- from conception, to visualization, to dramatization, to characterization and dialogue- and teaches them how to create a dramatic narrative that is at once short (approximately half an hour in length) and complete. Exercises, new examples of short screenplays, and an examination of various genres round out the discussion. NEW TO THE THIRD EDITION: new screenplays, a chapter on rewriting your script, and a chapter on the future of short films

Looks a the life and works of forty-nine Asian American short story writers.