1) to make one’s mark on (the literary scene)
2) to adopt (certain) tactics and topics
3) to insulate against
4) overt ↔ covert
5) effrontery: Frechheit [see below!]
6) female conduct
7) [as] the object of their moral concern
8) safely [here]
9) without being thought
10) to poach
11) (the male) preserves (of)
12) power politics
13) trenchant social criticism
14) romance
romance:
15) consequently A) a book or film dealing with love
in a sentimental or idealized way
16) to figure as … in light
historical romances
17) major motif B)
[here]
a genre of fiction dealing with
love in such a way:
18) women established for themselves
wartime passion from the master
of romance
19) (a) distinctive (place)
20) appealing to
21) (a growing number of) bourgeois literate
women
22) (who) found reflections
22) (in) women’s writing
23) fabric and fantasies
24) of their own lives
25) forceful(ly) [here]
26) to reveal
27) dissident [here adj.]
28) underlying themes
29) perceptive(ly)
30) reading public
31) while yet registering
32) journal
33) the extent of their alienation from
34) popular images of
35) (female) propriety
36) to demonstrate ≈
show
37) (female) province
38) women’s writing for publication
39) (was most carefully) stage-managed
40) a major literary undertaking
41) blandness
Duden
(Band 8, 2000):
Frechheit: Unverschämtheit,
Dreistigkeit, Arroganz, Impertinenz, Insolenz, Vorwitz
Ungezogenheit, Chuzpe, Unverfrorenheit, Kaltschnäuzigkeit
Wahrig/dtv (2003): Frechheit: Impertinenz, Bodenlosigkeit, Chuzpe → Unverschämtheit, Zumutung, Ungezogenheit
Langenscheidt,
Großwörterbuch: effrontery: Frechheit,
Unverschämtheit
propriety: Schicklichkeit,
Anstand pl. Anstandsformen,
- regeln, gute Sitten,
Angemessenheit, Richtigkeit
Pons
(Klett/Collins), Großwörterbuch: effrontery: Unverfrorenheit,
Unverschämtheit
propriety: Anstand,
Richtigkeit
www.leo.org
effrontery: Frechheit, Unverfrorenheit, Unverschämtheit
propriety: Anständigkeit, Anstand, Korrektheit, Schicklichkeit
www.dict.cc/?s=effrontery:
effrontery: Frechheit, Unverschämtheit, (die) Stirn (besitzen)
www.dict.cc/?s=propriety: propriety:
Anstand, Anständigkeit, Korrektheit, Schicklichkeit
EXTRA
(1): a)"KITSCH AS KITSCH CAN",
Barbara Cartland!
(Barbara Cartland: "The Queen of Romance")
romance b)
X
sound: Magnolia(Cartland).mp3 (= text
of 1a above read by W.E.P.)
EXTRA (2): Three love songs by Tom Lehrer:
love
a) X
sound: Old And Grey(Tom Lehrer).mp3 b) text: Tom Lehrer, When You Are Old And Grey
a) X
sound: The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz.mp3 b) text: Tom
Lehrer, The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
a)
X
sound: I Hold Your Hand In Mine(Tom Lehrer).mp3 b) text: Tom
Lehrer, I Hold Your Hand in Mine
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