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Literature: History & Criticism
Psycholinguistics
place, because it is writing that calls one to witness, to feel, and to imagine all at the same time.
Christiane Bongartz • Jacopo Torregrossa (eds.)
Jadwiga Uchman
Berlin, 2021. 242 pp., 20 fig. b/w, 19 tables.
The Theatre of the Absurd, the Grotesque and Politics
What’s in a Narrative? Variation in Storytelling at the Interface Between Language and Literacy Inquiries in Language Learning. Forschungen zu Psycholinguistik und Fremdsprachendidaktik. Vol. 27
A Study of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard
hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-66007-2 CHF 70.– / €D 59.95 / €A 61.60 / € 56.10 / £ 46.– / US-$ 67.95
Berlin, 2021. 234 pp.
eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-3-653-05182-7 CHF 70.– / €D 59.95 / €A 61.70 / € 56.10 / £ 46.– / US-$ 67.95
Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance. Historical Narratives. Theater. Public Life. Vol. 27 hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-85376-4 CHF 58.– / €D 49.95 / €A 51.40 / € 46.70 / £ 38.– / US-$ 56.95 eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-3-631-85703-8 CHF 58.– / €D 49.95 / €A 51.40 / € 46.70 / £ 38.– / US-$ 56.95
The monograph deals with chosen aspects of modern drama based on the output of three playwrights. It discusses the works of Beckett, Pinter and Stoppard in reference to their employment of the grotesque and the theatre of the absurd. Elements of the grotesque appear in political dramas of all three playwrights. While Beckett does not shy away from absurdity in his plays, some of the early dramas of Pinter and Stoppard present a general existential condition of man, even though their strictly political plays are basically realistic in respect to form, yet satirical in their content. Most of the political plays discussed portray the absurdity of totalitarian countries, stemming from the tragicomic discrepancy between what the authorities are saying they are doing and their actual actions.
Research on narrative production plays a central role in linguistics, psycholinguistics and language acquisition. Narrative elicitation allows researchers to investigate specific linguistic structures and the processes involved in their acquisition in an ecological way. This book provides methodological remarks on how to approach research on narratives, identifying factors that underlie variation in narrative production, including the type of narrative task, cross-linguistic differences, learners’ literacy and cognitive development and the narrative practices in society. The volume features contributions on theoretical and methodological aspects of research on narratives from 16 researchers in linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics and developmental psychology.
