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Volume 27 (2016), Issue 1

Focus on Comic Representations in Post-Millennial British and Irish Fiction. Focus Editor: Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz

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Table of Contents open-access

Focus on Comic Representations in Post-Millennial British and Irish Fiction. Focus Editor: Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz

Introduction open-access

Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz

Page 5 - 17


Innocent Abroad open-access

Jonathan Coe's ‘Expo 58’ and the Comedy of Forgiveness

Jean-Michel Ganteau

Page 19 - 29


Nick Hornby's Melancholy Comedy open-access

Andrew Tate

Page 31 - 44


"Show me a novel that's not comic …" open-access

Howard Jacobson's ‘The Finkler Question’

Christoph Houswitschka

Page 45 - 59


When the Professor Loses His Faculties open-access

Uses of the Comic in David Lodge's Novel ‘Deaf Sentence’

Heinrich Versteegen

Page 61 - 72


Sunlight and Dark open-access

Humorous Shades in Ian McEwan's Later Novels

Peter Childs

Page 73 - 83


A Proletarian Comedy of Menace open-access

Martin Amis's ‘Lionel Asbo’

Susanne Peters

Page 85 - 97


"Et in Arcadia ille – this one is/was also in Arcadia" open-access

Human Life and Death as Comedy for the Immortals in John Banville's ‘The Infinities’

Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz

Page 99 - 111


The Use of Comic Effects in Memoirs of British Asian Adolescence open-access

21st- Century Writers Looking Back at the 1970s and 1980s

Merle Tönnies

Page 113 - 124


"Man haf fe do wha man haf fe do" open-access

Humour and Identity (Re)Formation in Bernardine Evaristo's ‘Mr Loverman’

Stephan Karschay, Joanna Rostek

Page 125 - 136


Elements of Satire and Romantic Comedy in a Portrayal of British Society at the Beginning of the Millennium: Sebastian Faulks's ‘A Week in December’ open-access

Marion Gymnich

Page 137 - 148


More Than Just an Effect open-access

The Comic in British Women's Contemporary Short Stories

Ulrike Zimmermann

Page 149 - 162

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