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FOCUS ON COMIC REPRESENTATIONS IN POST-MILLENNIAL BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION

BARBARA PUSCHMANN-NALENZ Introduction 5 J EAN-MICHEL GANTEAU Innocent Abroad: Jonathan Coe's Expo 58 and the Comedy of Forgiveness 19 A NDREW TATE Nick Hornby's Melancholy Comedy 31 C HRISTOPH HOUSWITSCHKA "Show me a novel that's not comic …:" Howard Jacobson's The Finkler Question 45 H EINRICH VERSTEEGEN When the Professor Loses His Faculties: Uses of the Comic in David Lodge's Novel Deaf Sentence 61 P ETER CHILDS Sunlight and Dark: Humorous Shades in Ian McEwan's Later Novels 73 S USANNE PETERS A Proletarian Comedy of Menace: Martin Amis's Lionel Asbo 85 B ARBARA PUSCHMANN-NALENZ "Et in Arcadia ille – this one is/was also in Arcadia:" Human Life and Death as Comedy for the Immortals in John Banville's The Infinities 99 M ERLE TÖNNIES The Use of Comic Effects in Memoirs of British Asian Adolescence: 21st- Century Writers Looking Back at the 1970s and 1980s 113

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 the Beginning of the Millennium: Sebastian Faulks's A Week in December 137

ULRIKE ZIMMERMANN More Than Just an Effect: The Comic in British Women's Contemporary Short Stories 149

ARTICLES E LIN KÄCK Revisiting Europe: American Constructions of Europe in Poetry of the 20th and 21st Centuries 163

ROBERTO DI SCALA At the Crossroads of the Global and the Local: Suggested Future st Directions for 21 -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. - by DANIEL STEIN 185

Reingard M. Nischik, ed. The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. - by MARTIN LÖSCHNIGG 187

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. - by STEPHAN LIESKE 191

Wieland Schwanebeck, ed. Über Hochstapelei: Perspektiven auf eine kul- turelle 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 Spra- che. Heidelberg: Winter, 2013. - by MONIKA KIRNER-LUDWIG 197 Viveka Velupillai. Pidgins, Creoles and Mixed Languages. An Introduction. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2015. - by DANY ADONE 200 Wolfgang Hallet und Carola Surkamp, eds. Dramendidaktik und Dramenpädagogik im Fremdsprachenunterricht. Trier: WVT, 2015. - by LAURENZ VOLKMANN 201

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 203

STYLE SHEET 206

CALL FOR DONATIONS 208