TABLE OF CONTENTS FOCUS ON COMIC REPRESENTATIONS IN POST-MILLENNIAL BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION BARBARA PUSCHMANN-NALENZ Introduction 5 JEAN-MICHEL GANTEAU Innocent Abroad: Jonathan Coe's Expo 58 and the Comedy of Forgiveness 19 ANDREW TATE Nick Hornby's Melancholy Comedy CHRISTOPH HOUSWITSCHKA "Show me a novel that's not comic …:" Howard Jacobson's The Finkler Question HEINRICH VERSTEEGEN When the Professor Loses His Faculties: Uses of the Comic in David Lodge's Novel Deaf Sentence PETER CHILDS Sunlight and Dark: Humorous Shades in Ian McEwan's Later Novels 31 45 61 73 SUSANNE PETERS 85 A Proletarian Comedy of Menace: Martin Amis's Lionel Asbo BARBARA PUSCHMANN-NALENZ "Et in Arcadia ille – this one is/was also in Arcadia:" Human Life and 99 Death as Comedy for the Immortals in John Banville's The Infinities MERLE TÖNNIES The Use of Comic Effects in Memoirs of British Asian Adolescence: 21st113 Century Writers Looking Back at the 1970s and 1980s STEPHAN KARSCHAY AND JOANNA ROSTEK "Man haf fe do wha man haf fe do:" Humour and Identity (Re)Formation in Bernardine Evaristo's Mr Loverman 125 MARION GYMNICH Elements of Satire and Romantic Comedy in a Portrayal of British Society at 137 the Beginning of the Millennium: Sebastian Faulks's A Week in December ULRIKE ZIMMERMANN More Than Just an Effect: The Comic in British Women's Contemporary 149 Short Stories ARTICLES ELIN KÄCK Revisiting Europe: American Constructions of Europe in Poetry of the 20th 163 and 21st Centuries ROBERTO DI SCALA At the Crossroads of the Global and the Local: Suggested Future Directions for 21st-Century ELT 175 REVIEWS Oliver Scheiding and Martin Seidl, eds. Worlding America: A Transnational Anthology of Short Narratives before 1800. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. 185 - by DANIEL STEIN Reingard M. Nischik, ed. The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 187 - by MARTIN LÖSCHNIGG Kate Macdonald and Christoph Singer, eds. Transitions in Middlebrow Writing, 1880-1930. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. - by ANNE-JULIA ZWIERLEIN 189 Brigita Jeraj. Tendenzen der Female Gothic Fiction im 20. Jahrhundert. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2015. 191 - by STEPHAN LIESKE Wieland Schwanebeck, ed. Über Hochstapelei: Perspektiven auf eine kulturelle Praxis. Berlin: Neofelis, 2014. - by MARTIN HOLTZ 193 Sonja Fielitz, ed. "…that I wished myself a horse." The Horse as Representative of Cultural Change in Systems of Thought. Heidelberg: Winter, 2015. - by ROMAN BARTOSCH 195 Claudia Lamb. Die Authorized Version of the Bible (1611) und ihre Sprache. Heidelberg: Winter, 2013. - by MONIKA KIRNER-LUDWIG 197 Viveka Velupillai. Pidgins, Creoles and Mixed Languages. An Introduction. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2015. 200 - by DANY ADONE Wolfgang Hallet und Carola Surkamp, eds. Dramendidaktik und Dramenpädagogik im Fremdsprachenunterricht. Trier: WVT, 2015. 201 - by LAURENZ VOLKMANN LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 203 STYLE SHEET 205 CALL FOR DONATIONS 207
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