Biography, Literature and Literary studies

'If we lived only in worlds of spirit, as we do between death and a new birth, we would never be able to acquire freedom there.

Throughout the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the so-called Muslim question has intermittently, though persistently, taken centre stage in Western media and political discourses.

First published in 1984, in Rhetoric of Everyday English Texts, the author uses over 100 short texts from educated writers in all walks of life to demonstrate that when we communicate there is a powerful unspoken linguistic consensus as to what is 'relevant' to our purpose in writing a particular text for a particular audience.

»Seit meiner Kindheit hatte ich über Prousts Figuren und all ihre Vorbilder reden hören.