Comedy and Gender
Essays in Honour of Dieter A. Berger
1st Edition
Published in July 2007
Book
Hardback
II, 256 pages
978-3-8253-5328-5 (ISBN)
Description
'Comedy and Gender' assembles contributions to the interdisciplinary Regensburg symposium in honour of Dieter A. Berger (2006). The collection mirrors the range of contemporary English and American Studies in Germany. Articles concerned with British literary and cultural history are accompanied by others which are orientated towards the USA. The collection includes also those contributions which approach the complex field of Comedy and Gender from a linguistic angle, but which forge a link with Cultural Studies and in particular with Gender Studies. The range of texts and media reaches from examples taken from all major literary genres over verbal puns in the language of advertisements to television comedies and to 'heritage films', and from Shakespeare's plays over cultural time and space to contemporary drama in the USA, and to trans-cultural novels published on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Helge Nowak
Introduction
Karl Heinz Göller
The Jesuits' Theatre in Regensburg
Günther Blaicher
Time in Shakespearean Comedy:
The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, The Winter's Tale
Manfred Beyer
The Image of Women in Shakespeare's Othello and Antony and Cleopatra
Peter Lenz
Eliza Haywood - 'Stupid, Infamous, Scribbling Woman' or Pacemaker of the Emancipation of Literary Women in Eighteenth-Century England?
Helge Nowak
Writing Back with a Vengeance? Women's Answer Poems from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
Rolf P. Lessenich
Comedy and Pre-Revolutionary Sentiment in Tobias Smollett's Humphry Clinker
Franz Meier
Excessive Comedy and Moral Ambiguity in Beckford's Vathek
Silvia Mergenthal
Losing One's Heart in the Highlands:
Cross-Cultural Marriages in Scott, Brunton, and Ferrier
Lucia Krämer
Funny Lady: Cinematic Comedy in Recent Austen Adaptations
Albert-Reiner Glaap
From Mother Figure to Woman in Mind to Damsels in Distress: Roles of Women in Alan Ayckbourn's Comedies
Hansjörg Gehring
When it Comes to Gender, We Are What We Are:
Common Sense Evidence from Two American Novels
Udo J. Hebel
"Not Really a Comedy": Donald Margulies's
Dinner With Friends as a Scaring Game of Marital Entropy and Suburban Discontent
Roswitha Fischer
Verbal Humor in Print Ads: Getting Gender Stereotypes
Past the Reader
Edgar W. Schneider
Language, Humour and Gender in Ali G's Innit
Rainer Emig
Ethnicity as Comedy: The Ambivalences of Humour and Gender in Recent Asian-British Novels
Publications by Dieter A. Berger on Comedy, Gender and
Other Issues (compiled by Gaby Hierl and Helge Nowak)
Introduction
Karl Heinz Göller
The Jesuits' Theatre in Regensburg
Günther Blaicher
Time in Shakespearean Comedy:
The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, The Winter's Tale
Manfred Beyer
The Image of Women in Shakespeare's Othello and Antony and Cleopatra
Peter Lenz
Eliza Haywood - 'Stupid, Infamous, Scribbling Woman' or Pacemaker of the Emancipation of Literary Women in Eighteenth-Century England?
Helge Nowak
Writing Back with a Vengeance? Women's Answer Poems from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
Rolf P. Lessenich
Comedy and Pre-Revolutionary Sentiment in Tobias Smollett's Humphry Clinker
Franz Meier
Excessive Comedy and Moral Ambiguity in Beckford's Vathek
Silvia Mergenthal
Losing One's Heart in the Highlands:
Cross-Cultural Marriages in Scott, Brunton, and Ferrier
Lucia Krämer
Funny Lady: Cinematic Comedy in Recent Austen Adaptations
Albert-Reiner Glaap
From Mother Figure to Woman in Mind to Damsels in Distress: Roles of Women in Alan Ayckbourn's Comedies
Hansjörg Gehring
When it Comes to Gender, We Are What We Are:
Common Sense Evidence from Two American Novels
Udo J. Hebel
"Not Really a Comedy": Donald Margulies's
Dinner With Friends as a Scaring Game of Marital Entropy and Suburban Discontent
Roswitha Fischer
Verbal Humor in Print Ads: Getting Gender Stereotypes
Past the Reader
Edgar W. Schneider
Language, Humour and Gender in Ali G's Innit
Rainer Emig
Ethnicity as Comedy: The Ambivalences of Humour and Gender in Recent Asian-British Novels
Publications by Dieter A. Berger on Comedy, Gender and
Other Issues (compiled by Gaby Hierl and Helge Nowak)