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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Experiential learning in organizations : applications of the tavistock group relations approach / / by Laurence J. Gould |
Autore | Gould Laurence J. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Karnac, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
Disciplina | 153.1/52 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MillerEric J
GouldLaurence J StapleyLionel SteinMark |
Soggetto topico | Tavistock Group Relations approach |
ISBN |
0-429-91341-9
9780429896908 0-429-47441-5 1-283-24895-6 9786613248954 1-84940-434-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | COVER; EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS; Introduction; 1 "The 'Leicester' model" revisited; 2 Theories of experiential learningand the unconscious; 3 Fraternal disciplines:group relations training and systemspsychodynamic organizational consultation; 4 Diversity and authority conferencesas a social defence; 5 Working in retreats:learning from the group relations tradition; 6 Building an institutionfor experiential learning; 7 Experiencing, understanding, and dealingwith intergroup and institutional conflict; REFERENCES; INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789652903321 |
Gould Laurence J. | ||
London ; ; New York, : Karnac, 2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Experiential learning in organizations : applications of the tavistock group relations approach / / by Laurence J. Gould |
Autore | Gould Laurence J. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Karnac, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
Disciplina | 153.1/52 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MillerEric J
GouldLaurence J StapleyLionel SteinMark |
Soggetto topico | Tavistock Group Relations approach |
ISBN |
0-429-91341-9
9780429896908 0-429-47441-5 1-283-24895-6 9786613248954 1-84940-434-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | COVER; EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS; Introduction; 1 "The 'Leicester' model" revisited; 2 Theories of experiential learningand the unconscious; 3 Fraternal disciplines:group relations training and systemspsychodynamic organizational consultation; 4 Diversity and authority conferencesas a social defence; 5 Working in retreats:learning from the group relations tradition; 6 Building an institutionfor experiential learning; 7 Experiencing, understanding, and dealingwith intergroup and institutional conflict; REFERENCES; INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823779403321 |
Gould Laurence J. | ||
London ; ; New York, : Karnac, 2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The systems psychodynamics of organizations : integrating the group relations approach, psychoanalytic, and open systems perspectives : contributions in honor of Eric J. Miller / / edited by Laurence J. Gould, Lionel F. Stapley, Mark Stein |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Karnac Press, 2006, c2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
Disciplina | 158.7 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MillerE. J (Eric John)
GouldLaurence J StapleyLionel SteinMark |
Soggetto topico |
Organizational change
Group decision making Organization |
ISBN |
0-429-92238-8
0-429-90815-6 0-429-48338-4 1-283-06912-1 9786613069122 1-84940-517-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
COVER; Editors and Contibutors; Contents; Introduction; 1. Applying Learning from Experience: The Intersection of Psychoanalysis and Organizational Role Consultation; 2. The Exercise of Authority in a Dependent Context; 3. An Organization Looks at Itself: Psychoanalytic and Group Relations Perspectives on Facilitating Organizational Transition; 4. Complexity at the ""Edge"" of the Basic-Assumption Group; 5. Enemies Within and Without: Paranoia and Regression in Groups and Organizations; 6. Dilemmas of Organizational Change: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective
7. A Large-System Intervention: The Influence of Organisational Culture8. Institutional Learning as Chief Executive; 9. The Leader the Unconscious, and the Management of the Organisation; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825461403321 |
London ; ; New York, : Karnac Press, 2006, c2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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