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SPELL : Swiss papers in English language and literature

Volume 30 (2014)
Front matter _
Table of Contents _
Preface: General editor's preface _
Article: Introduction 11
Article: When sympathy fails : the affective turn in contemporary fiction 27
Article: Delicious, tender chaucer : coleridge, emotion and affect 51
Article: Impoliteness and emotions in a cross-cultural perspective 67
Article: Feeling dredeful : fear and therapy in The Scale of Perfection 89
Article: The affectionate author : familiy love as rhetorical device in eighteenth-century conduct books for young women 109
Article: Exuberant energies : affect in Vathek, Zofloya and The Giaour 125
Article: Joyce's transcendental aesthetics of epiphany 143
Article: Awe, terror and mathematics in Don DeLillo's Ratner's Star 163
Article: Talk about flipping health food : swearing and religious oaths in Irish and British English 177
Article: Attitudes of students in Switzerland towards varieties of English 197
Article: "All I could do was hand her another tissue" : handling emotions as a challenge in reflective texts by medical students 215
Article: Political emotions : civil religion and melodrama in Spielberg's Lincoln 237
Rubric: Notes on contributors 257
Index: Index of names 263
Endseiten 269