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dc.contributor.authorSousa, Alcina
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dc.date.available2018-05-30T11:29:20Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractMore than half of Adrian’s diary entries (by Sue Townsend, 1982, 1984, 1988, 1991, 1993 and 1999) encompass two decades of the protagonist’s maturing process and existence, in a working class setting. These cover different periods of the British History and sociopolitical events: from Margaret Thatcher’s takeover to Tony Blair’s government. Indeed, Adrian finds it difficult to conform to a way of life which he holds up as trivial. Besides, “Englishness” has acquired, in his unexpected conservative stance, a multicultural dimension for much of Adrian’s disenchantment. Therefore, he is fiercely committed to preserve the all-British standards, evidenced in his behaviour and discursive practices, by means of a witty dialogue, irony, hyperbole, and parody. The aim of this paper is to bring to the fore some of the protagonist’s sociocultural references and stylistic choices which challenge readers with humorously “unusual and unexpected events to the ‘maps of meaning’ (Hall et al., 1978: 54-55), that already form the basis of their cultural knowledge” of everyday language. Readers identify strings of continuity, on the one hand, and of rupture between the scheming of the old empires and the new goals of global capitalism, on the other. Perhaps Townsend’s premise against life’s “alogical” course of events led her to create a fictional character for whom humour may be suggestive of “a certain ideal image of the world” (Critchley 2002: 87-90).pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationAdrian strikes back with style and humour / Alcina Sousa - In: JoLIE, journal of linguistic and intercultural education. - Alba Iulia, Roménia: Aeternitas, 2009. - ISSN 2065-6599. - Vol.2, nº2, p. 277 - 292.pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn2065-6599
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/1954
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.publisherAeternitaspt_PT
dc.subjectCarnivalisationpt_PT
dc.subjectDefamiliarisationpt_PT
dc.subjectUncrowningpt_PT
dc.subjectStylept_PT
dc.subjectSatirept_PT
dc.subjectTownsendpt_PT
dc.subjectSátirapt_PT
dc.subjectHumorpt_PT
dc.subjectAnálise literáriapt_PT
dc.subject.pt_PT
dc.subjectFaculdade de Artes e Humanidadespt_PT
dc.titleAdrian strikes back with style and humourpt_PT
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.conferencePlaceAlba Iulia, Roméniapt_PT
oaire.citation.endPage292pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage277pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleJoLIE, journal of linguistic and intercultural educationpt_PT
oaire.citation.volume2, nº 2pt_PT
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person.givenNameAlcina
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person.identifier.ridABD-5800-2020
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