Military English and Cultural Linguistics (Room 758, Run Run Shaw Tower)
Professor Hans-Georg Wolf - Potsdam University
10 events found.
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Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
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Shifting values of English for the transnational Ismaili Muslim community
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr. Brook Bolander - The University of Hong Kong
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Scientism in the language sciences
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr. Jon Orman - The University of Hong Kong
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Hong Kong English in the Oxford English Dictionary
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr. Danica Salazar - University of Oxford
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Telling Tales about Chlorodyne: Nineteenth-Century Print Culture and the Secret Character of Things
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr. James Mussell - University of Leeds
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Anthony Burgess and Modernism
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUProf. Andrew Biswell - International Anthony Burgess Foundation (http://www2.mmu.ac.uk/english/staff/profile/index.php?id=1) Abstract In 1992 Anthony Burgess wrote a proposal for an unwritten book, ‘Modernism and Modern Man’. Burgess died the following year, but the proposal document offers a detailed statement about his thinking on modernism, not simply as a historical movement but as a continuous artistic project […]
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Anthony Burgess and Modernism
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUProf. Andrew Biswell - International Anthony Burgess Foundation (http://www2.mmu.ac.uk/english/staff/profile/index.php?id=1) Abstract In 1992 Anthony Burgess wrote a proposal for an unwritten book, ‘Modernism and Modern Man’. Burgess died the following year, but the proposal document offers a detailed statement about his thinking on modernism, not simply as a historical movement but as a continuous artistic project […]
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George Orwell and the Police
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUProf. Douglas Kerr - School of English, HKU (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/150/Professor%20Douglas%20Kerr) Abstract Police states are "Orwellian". This paper reads George Orwell to ask what the police meant to him. It traces continuities in his representation of the police, from the imperial force with which he served in Burma in the 1920s, to the Spanish police from whom […]
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The Newspaper Novel: Sensation, Realism, and Imagined Community
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr. Jessica Valdez - School of English, HKU (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/64/Dr%20J.%20R.%20Valdez) Abstract Victorian commentators saw the sensation novel—a short-lived sub-genre of the 1860s known for its fast-paced plots drawn from real life—as symptomatic of the newspapers’ growing influence on the reading public. In a famous 1860 review, H. L. Manse conflated this new novelistic form – which […]
