The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction Who’s Laughing Now?
- Submitting institution
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Queen Mary University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1478
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- ISBN
- 9781474293051
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2020
- 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
- The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction is the first major study (108,000 words) of comedy, humour and laughter in contemporary English fiction. It includes in-depth analysis of more than 30 works from seven authors and draws on an extended corpus of comic texts from antiquity to the present. The Comic Turn engages with interdisciplinary work from fields including literary theory, philosophy, narratology, linguistics, psychoanalysis and sociology to establish both an original approach to understanding contemporary fiction and a series of new frameworks for understanding the political, stylistic and affective function of literary comedy and humour.
- 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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