Lately, I have been thinking about anthropomorphized animals, so I flipped through a coffee table book on Beatrix Potter. In Beatrix Potter. At Home in the Lake District, Susan Denyer juxtaposes Potter’s home in the Lake District in Northern England with her art. By doing so, it becomes clear that Denyer draws on the importance [...]
The paper, “Code-Switching Among English and Swiss-German Speaking Couples” is a proposal for a hypothetical research project in linguistics, and it was a collaboration between Azra von Niederhäusern-Hodzic and me. We worked on the premise that native speakers of both languages will eventually code-switch during a conversation, no matter how consistently they try to stick to one language.
How is the yuppie in Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho portrayed? Does s/he need to look a certain way, in order to be part of an unanimously approved group identity? What is the yuppie’s consumer behavior – and what is his or her stance on love and moral values? It is not easy to break down stereotypes, for there appears to be a very thin line between an exaggerated and a truthful depiction of a novel-yuppie.
1. Introduction In The Knight’s Tale , the two cousins Arcite and Palamon duel over Emelye’s hand in marriage. The concept of dueling is commonly portrayed in literary works as a means to resolve a quarrel between two men. In The Knight’s Tale the duel is depicted in much detail. To readers of medieval tales [...]
Once upon a time, a young couple moved from Switzerland to Sausalito, CA. One day, after feeling somewhat lonely, they decided to foster a dog. Surfing the net, they found Grateful Dogs Rescue, an organization that saves dogs at risk of euthanasia from San Francisco Animal Care and Control. Then, a couple of weeks later, [...]
For my book illustrations I use Royal Talen’s finest Rembrandt watercolors. Water colours are a transparent paint based on Gum arabic. Painting in water colour is a technique whereby the paint, thinned with water or as it is, is applied on special water colour paper. The paint has various constituents including pure pigments and Gum [...]