WS 2011/2012                  exam translation (advanced)                       text #4: word list    

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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