Comedy and Trauma in Austria and Germany after 1945: The Inner Side of Mourning
- Submitting institution
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University College London
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 13591
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Legenda
- ISBN
- 978-1-909662-95-7
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 218 page book is the product of sustained research over five years. It analyses a large body of primary material, offering new readings of eight authors and directors. This includes the full prose works of three authors and the full film oeuvre of two directors. Its themes are analysed in depth, drawing on trauma theory, theories of comedy and gender theory to challenge dominant paradigms of how suffering is represented after World War Two. Further, it considers the different contexts of post-war West Germany, East Germany and Austria.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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