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Item Comparison of the Approach to the -ing Form of the English Verb in Selected Academic Grammars(FF UK: Kruh moderních filologů, 2025) Petrlíková, JarmilaThe article provides an overview of the descriptions of the -ing forms of the English verb in four selected academic grammars of English, from both morphological and syntactic perspectives. It focuses on the terminology used to describe constructions with the -ing forms as the head of a non-finite verb phrase. The conclusions highlight the need for students using these grammars to be able to navigate the different approaches to describing this phenomenon, as well as to justify the choice of a particular approach.
Item The Haunting Lodge: How Barry Hannah Exorcised the Spirit of William Faulkner in "Nicodemus Bluff"(Silesian University in Opava, 2023) Vice, William BradleyFor most of his career, Mississippi author Barry Hannah was deemed the postmodern heir to William Faulkner, a moniker only intensified by Hannah’s association with Oxford, Mississippi, Faulkner’s hometown. Though Hannah was increasingly resistant to this label, and earlier sought to distance himself from Faulkner’s mythopoetic architecture, Hannah’s later fiction frequently addresses themes concerning the Mississippi landscape that can only be described as Faulknerian. In “Nicodemus Bluff,” Hannah summonses the central theme of Faulkner’s coming-of-age story in “The Bear,” then banishes this influence with his own absurdist and surrealist style – indebted partly to the supernatural tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Underneath this stylistic renovation, Hannah maintains a certain resistance to commercialism, to the concept of ownership, and specifically the concept of inheritance when it comes to wilderness and the natural landscape, values at the heart of the “The Bear” and Go Down, Moses.
