Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Cologne (Englisches Seminar), course: Hauptseminar Old English Prose, language: English, abstract: Lives of saints were a very popular genre in Christian Europe throughout the entire Middle Ages, and their popularity did not cease until the Reformation in the 16th century. Since Late Antiquity two basic concepts of saints' lives had evolved, the passio ('passion') and the vita ('life'). -The passio was the literary form appropriate for a saint who had been martyred...

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,0, University of Cologne (Englisches Seminar), course: Sitcom and Violence - Einfuhrungsseminar Literaturwissenschaft, language: English, abstract: Violence and its various forms of representation have been a recurring source of comedy and humour throughout the history of comedic literature. (...) As Schneider et al. have shown, violence can be interpersonal, collective, or even self-inflicted. Forms of violence can be both physical and non-physical. Whereas violence in its blunt physical or verbal...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Englisch - Grammatik, Stil, Arbeitstechnik, Note: 1,3, Universitat zu Koln, Veranstaltung: English Grammar: Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The terms 'synthetic language' and 'analytic language' in connection with linguistic typo?logy have become commonplaces in contemporary lingusitics. They refer to morphological or rather morpho-syntactic characteristics of languages. "Whereas analytic languages have very few affixes (for example, Modern English), synthetic languages have many (for example, Latin, Old English)."...

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,3, University of Cologne (Englisches Seminar), course: Hauptseminar "English Literature from Chaucer to Shakespeare," language: English, abstract: This paper will scrutinize the "Miller's Tale" and the "Reeve's Tale" with regard to their erotic contents and the instances of obscene speech. The main emphasis will be put on a discussion on the genre of the tales as well as the question, whether instances of eroticism are really the light-hearted expression of joyful lust, or rather skillful narrative means...