Seminar paper from the year 1999 in the subject English Language
and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, printed
single-sided, grade: 1,7, University of Osnabrück (Fachbereich
Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften), course: Constructing
Britishness: Fiction, Film, Press, 12 entries in the
bibliography, language: English, comment: Kommentar des
Dozenten: "Eine gute Fleißarbeit, in der man sich allenfalls
Verweise auf beispielhafte Texte aus dem Seminar wünschen könnte
- z.B. zum schottischen Nationalismus. Gut: II+" , abstract: "We
call our islands by no less than six different names, England,
Britain, Great Britain, the British Isles, the United Kingdom
and, in very exalted moments, Albion." This quotation taken from
George Orwell's essay England, Your England (1941) clearly shows
that the names quoted above are often used as synonyms, although
they patently are not. So it is no surprise that some people
define themselves as being "Englishsorrybritish" - a term which
occurred in the newspapers s