Cheeky Fictions : Laughter and the Postcolonial / / edited by Susanne Reichl, Mark Stein |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.917 |
Collana | Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft |
Soggetto topico |
Comic, The, in literature
Laughter in literature Postcolonialism in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
94-012-0293-1
1-4237-9120-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Susanne REICHL/Mark STEIN: Introduction -- I. Laughter's double vision - Humour and cultural ambiguity -- Ulrike ERICHSEN: Smiling in the face of adversity: How to use humour to defuse cultural conflict -- Anthony ILONA: 'Laughing through the tears': Mockery and self-representation in V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas and Earl Lovelace's The Dragon Can't Dance -- Virginia RICHTER: Laughter and aggression: Desire and derision in a postcolonial context -- Helga RAMSEY-KURZ: Humouring the terrorists or the terrorised? Militant Muslims in Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, and Hanif Kureishi -- II. Traditions and transgressions - Writing back and forth -- Heinz ANTOR: Postcolonial laughter in Canada: Mordecai Richler's The Incomparable Atuk -- Susan LEVER: The colonizer's gift of cursing: Satire in David Foster's Moonlite -- Michael MEYER: Swift and Sterne revisited: Postcolonial parodies in Rushdie and Singh-Toor -- Detlef GOHRBANDT: After-laughter, or the comedy of decline: Ronald Searle's critique of postwar Englishness in The Rake's Progress -- III. Ethnic cabaret - A license to laugh? -- Mita BANERJEE: Queer laughter: Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy and the normative as comic -- Astrid FELLNER/Klaus HEISSENBERGER: 'I was born in East L.A.': Humour and the displacement of nationality and ethnicity -- Christiane SCHLOTE: 'The sketch's the thing wherein we'll catch the conscience of the audience': Strategies and pitfalls of ethnic TV comedies in Britain, the United States, and Germany -- IV. The language of humour - The humour of language -- Margit OZVALDA: Worlds apart: Schools in postcolonial Indian fiction -- Susanne PICHLER: Interculturality and humour in Timothy Mo's Sour Sweet -- Susanne MÜHLEISEN: What makes an accent funny, and why? Black British Englishes and humour televised -- V. Laughing it off - Does therapeutic humour work? -- Maggie Ann BOWERS: 'Ethnic glue': Humour in Native American literatures -- Annie GAGIANO: Using a comic vision to contend with tragedy: Three unusual African English novels -- Gisela FEURLE: Madam & Eve - Ten Wonderful Years: A cartoon strip and its role in post-apartheid South Africa -- Wendy WOODWARD: Laughing back at the kingfisher: Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness and postcolonial humour -- Index -- Contributors. |
Altri titoli varianti | Laughter and the Postcolonial |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451572003321 |
Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cheeky Fictions : Laughter and the Postcolonial / / edited by Susanne Reichl, Mark Stein |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.917 |
Collana | Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft |
Soggetto topico |
Comic, The, in literature
Laughter in literature Postcolonialism in literature |
ISBN |
94-012-0293-1
1-4237-9120-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Susanne REICHL/Mark STEIN: Introduction -- I. Laughter's double vision - Humour and cultural ambiguity -- Ulrike ERICHSEN: Smiling in the face of adversity: How to use humour to defuse cultural conflict -- Anthony ILONA: 'Laughing through the tears': Mockery and self-representation in V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas and Earl Lovelace's The Dragon Can't Dance -- Virginia RICHTER: Laughter and aggression: Desire and derision in a postcolonial context -- Helga RAMSEY-KURZ: Humouring the terrorists or the terrorised? Militant Muslims in Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, and Hanif Kureishi -- II. Traditions and transgressions - Writing back and forth -- Heinz ANTOR: Postcolonial laughter in Canada: Mordecai Richler's The Incomparable Atuk -- Susan LEVER: The colonizer's gift of cursing: Satire in David Foster's Moonlite -- Michael MEYER: Swift and Sterne revisited: Postcolonial parodies in Rushdie and Singh-Toor -- Detlef GOHRBANDT: After-laughter, or the comedy of decline: Ronald Searle's critique of postwar Englishness in The Rake's Progress -- III. Ethnic cabaret - A license to laugh? -- Mita BANERJEE: Queer laughter: Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy and the normative as comic -- Astrid FELLNER/Klaus HEISSENBERGER: 'I was born in East L.A.': Humour and the displacement of nationality and ethnicity -- Christiane SCHLOTE: 'The sketch's the thing wherein we'll catch the conscience of the audience': Strategies and pitfalls of ethnic TV comedies in Britain, the United States, and Germany -- IV. The language of humour - The humour of language -- Margit OZVALDA: Worlds apart: Schools in postcolonial Indian fiction -- Susanne PICHLER: Interculturality and humour in Timothy Mo's Sour Sweet -- Susanne MÜHLEISEN: What makes an accent funny, and why? Black British Englishes and humour televised -- V. Laughing it off - Does therapeutic humour work? -- Maggie Ann BOWERS: 'Ethnic glue': Humour in Native American literatures -- Annie GAGIANO: Using a comic vision to contend with tragedy: Three unusual African English novels -- Gisela FEURLE: Madam & Eve - Ten Wonderful Years: A cartoon strip and its role in post-apartheid South Africa -- Wendy WOODWARD: Laughing back at the kingfisher: Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness and postcolonial humour -- Index -- Contributors. |
Altri titoli varianti | Laughter and the Postcolonial |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777648403321 |
Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Theory and Practice in EFL Teacher Education : Bridging the Gap / / Julia Hüttner, Barbara Mehlmauer-Larcher, Susanne Reichl, Barbara Schiftner |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2011] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
Disciplina | 428.0071 |
Collana | New Perspectives on Language and Education |
Soggetto topico |
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers
English teachers -- Training of English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers English teachers - Training of Languages & Literatures English English Language Philology & Linguistics |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-12088-6
9786613524744 1-84769-526-4 |
Classificazione | ES 767 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Closing the Gap, Changing the Subject -- 2. The Dialectics of Theory and Practice in Teacher Knowledge Development -- 3. Moments of Practice: Teachers’ Knowledge and Interaction in the Language Classroom -- 4. Creating Language-Assessment Literacy: A Model for Teacher Education -- 5. Grammar Teaching: Theory, Practice and English Teacher Education -- 6. Cognitive + Communicative Grammar in Teacher Education -- 7. Towards a Stronger Intervention: The Role of Literature in Teacher Education -- 8. Supporting the Transfer of Innovation into Foreign-Language Classrooms: Applied Projects in In-Service Teacher Education -- 9. Developing Student Teachers’ ‘Pedagogical Content Knowledge’ in English for Specific Purposes: The ‘Vienna ESP Approach’ -- 10. The EPOSTL (European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages): A Tool to Promote Reflection and Learning in Pre-Service Teacher Education -- 11. NESTs Versus Non-NESTs: Rethinking English-Language Teacher Identitie -- 12. Multilingualism Pedagogy: Building Bridges between Languages -- Subject Index -- Name Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457650803321 |
Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2011] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Theory and Practice in EFL Teacher Education : Bridging the Gap / / Julia Hüttner, Barbara Mehlmauer-Larcher, Susanne Reichl, Barbara Schiftner |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2011] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
Disciplina | 428.0071 |
Collana | New Perspectives on Language and Education |
Soggetto topico |
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers
English teachers -- Training of English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers English teachers - Training of Languages & Literatures English English Language Philology & Linguistics |
Soggetto non controllato |
EFL
Shulman knowledge construction language teacher education pedagogical content knowledge teacher development theory and practice |
ISBN |
1-280-12088-6
9786613524744 1-84769-526-4 |
Classificazione | ES 767 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Closing the Gap, Changing the Subject -- 2. The Dialectics of Theory and Practice in Teacher Knowledge Development -- 3. Moments of Practice: Teachers’ Knowledge and Interaction in the Language Classroom -- 4. Creating Language-Assessment Literacy: A Model for Teacher Education -- 5. Grammar Teaching: Theory, Practice and English Teacher Education -- 6. Cognitive + Communicative Grammar in Teacher Education -- 7. Towards a Stronger Intervention: The Role of Literature in Teacher Education -- 8. Supporting the Transfer of Innovation into Foreign-Language Classrooms: Applied Projects in In-Service Teacher Education -- 9. Developing Student Teachers’ ‘Pedagogical Content Knowledge’ in English for Specific Purposes: The ‘Vienna ESP Approach’ -- 10. The EPOSTL (European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages): A Tool to Promote Reflection and Learning in Pre-Service Teacher Education -- 11. NESTs Versus Non-NESTs: Rethinking English-Language Teacher Identitie -- 12. Multilingualism Pedagogy: Building Bridges between Languages -- Subject Index -- Name Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779198303321 |
Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2011] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Theory and Practice in EFL Teacher Education : Bridging the Gap / / Julia Hüttner, Barbara Mehlmauer-Larcher, Susanne Reichl, Barbara Schiftner |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2011] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
Disciplina | 428.0071 |
Collana | New Perspectives on Language and Education |
Soggetto topico |
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers
English teachers -- Training of English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers English teachers - Training of Languages & Literatures English English Language Philology & Linguistics |
Soggetto non controllato |
EFL
Shulman knowledge construction language teacher education pedagogical content knowledge teacher development theory and practice |
ISBN |
1-280-12088-6
9786613524744 1-84769-526-4 |
Classificazione | ES 767 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Closing the Gap, Changing the Subject -- 2. The Dialectics of Theory and Practice in Teacher Knowledge Development -- 3. Moments of Practice: Teachers’ Knowledge and Interaction in the Language Classroom -- 4. Creating Language-Assessment Literacy: A Model for Teacher Education -- 5. Grammar Teaching: Theory, Practice and English Teacher Education -- 6. Cognitive + Communicative Grammar in Teacher Education -- 7. Towards a Stronger Intervention: The Role of Literature in Teacher Education -- 8. Supporting the Transfer of Innovation into Foreign-Language Classrooms: Applied Projects in In-Service Teacher Education -- 9. Developing Student Teachers’ ‘Pedagogical Content Knowledge’ in English for Specific Purposes: The ‘Vienna ESP Approach’ -- 10. The EPOSTL (European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages): A Tool to Promote Reflection and Learning in Pre-Service Teacher Education -- 11. NESTs Versus Non-NESTs: Rethinking English-Language Teacher Identitie -- 12. Multilingualism Pedagogy: Building Bridges between Languages -- Subject Index -- Name Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817464203321 |
Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2011] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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