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The fifteen essays in this volume reflect the diversity of German studies in Britain and Ireland today. The German language itself is the focus of four studies, covering historical aspects of German and Yiddish, language pedagogy and controversial contemporary issues, such as the rise of Anglicisms in German and the language of second- and third-generation immigrants. Traditional literary philology is also well represented in six essays on prose writers and dramatists from the nineteenth century to the present day, but it is a traditional philology that has been much modified and enriched by the cultural and historical perspectives evident in the remaining five essays. These include psychoanalytical and contextual studies and embrace the historical development and elaboration of mass media technologies from radio to public-access cable TV.

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The Editors: Holger Briel teaches German and Media Studies at the University of Surrey. He has published on literary theory, electronic media and contemporary German and English literature and society. Carol Fehringer teaches German and Dutch at the University of Newcastle. Her research area is theoretical linguistics and has published a variety of articles on Germanic morphology and phonology. She has also written a reference grammar of Dutch and a pedagogical grammar of German.

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