Comedy and Gender

Essays in Honour of Dieter A. Berger. Edited by Helge Nowak.

Contributions to an interdisciplinary symposium, Regensburg 2006. From the introduction: "The articles in the present collection address at least one of the two component parts of the title; in many cases, they address the whole complex of comedy and gender rôles or gender relations. Quite consciously, an attempt was made to address - with a variety of methodological approaches, but always within the limits of the title - a thematic spectrum which is as broad as possible. The range of texts and media reaches from examples 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. This common endeavour is moreover marked by methodological pluralism and by interdisciplinarity". 256 Seiten, gebunden (Regensburger Beiträge zur Gender-Forschung; Band 1/Winter Verlag 2007)