Books in the Austrian Studies in English series

This collection adopts a cognitive approach to the study of drama. Analyses range from the medieval stage to 21st century Anglophone drama and provide a cognitive reading of characterisation, interiority, performativity, decoding strategies, empathy, immersion, reader manipulation and audience control.

Fashionable Queens comprises a variety of essays dealing with the relationship of women and fashion. It offers a new way of thinking of publically significant women, who exert, and also subvert, their power through their attire and thereby negotiate notions of body, power, and gender.

The book covers the modelling of language variation, post-colonial language contact, forms/functions of ELF, intergenerational conflicts of bilingual Holocaust refugees, hip hop discourse of Tirolian adolescents, contacts between literature, science and the arts, high art and mass culture, childhood and violence in current crime fiction.