The Rhetoric of Women's Humour in Barbara Pym's Fiction /

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Varghaiyan, Naghmeh
Otros Autores: Raz, Orna (author of the preface.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : Ibidem Verlag, 2021.
Colección:Studies in English literatures.
Temas:
Pym, Barbara > Criticism and interpretation.
Pym, Barbara
Electronic books.
Livres numériques.
e-books.
Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface by Orna Raz
  • Introduction
  • 1 Characteristics of Women's Humour
  • 1.1 Myth of Women's Lack of a Sense of Humour
  • 1.2 Undermining Women's Wit
  • 1.3 Women's Language and écriture féminine
  • 1.4. Difference between Irony and Humour
  • 1.5 Necessity of a Humour of One's Own
  • 1.6 Humour: A Female Device?
  • 1.7 Misreading Women's Humour and Images of Women
  • 1.8 Lack of Ending in the Works of Women Writers
  • 1.9 Differences between Conventional Humour and Women's Humour
  • 1.10 Women's Humour and Socio-Cultural Restraints
  • 1.11 Ideology of Domesticity and Domestic Comedy
  • 1.12 Characteristics of Women's Humour
  • 1.13 Major Areas and Tactics of Female Humour
  • 1.14 Self-Irony
  • 1.15 Women Writers' Humour in the Nineteenth Century
  • 1.16 Humour as a Device of Sympathy
  • 1.17 Female Humour and Narrative Structure
  • 1.18 Rhetoric of Humour in Pym's Novels
  • 2 Some Tame Gazelle: Construction of Women's Veiled Humour
  • 2.1. Role of Rhetorical Strategies in the Construction of Women's Humour in STG
  • 2.1.1. Subversion of the Romantic Plot and the Discourse of Trivia
  • 2.1.2 Belinda's Double Text Discourse
  • 2.1.3 Function of Gossip in the Construction of Humorous Narrative
  • 2.1.4 Understatement and Self-Deprecation
  • 2.1.5 Sympathetic Bond between Narrator and Heroine and among Characters
  • 2.2. Function of Themes and Motifs in the Construction of Humorous Plot
  • 2.2.1 Subversion of Female Stereotypes
  • 2.2.2 Subversion of Male Images
  • 2.3 Women's Humour as Social Critique: Undermining the Institution of Church and Clergymen
  • 3 Excellent Women: Humour of Mildred Regarded as an Excellent Woman
  • 3.1 Rhetorical Strategies in the Construction of Women's Humour
  • 3.1.1 Understatement and Self-Deprecation
  • 3.1.2 Mildred's Double-Voiced Discourse
  • 3.2 Themes and Motifs in the Construction of Humorous Plot
  • 3.2.1 Subversion of the Stereotype of Excellent Woman
  • 3.2.2 Subversion of Male Images
  • 4 Jane and Prudence: Unconventional Wife and Satisfied Spinster
  • 4.1 Jane's Subversion of the Image of Conventional Clergyman's Wife
  • 4.1.1 Jane's Creation of a Fantastic World
  • 4.1.2 Jane's Reversal of the Role of Serving Female
  • 4.1.3 Jane's and Prudence's Use of Double-Voiced Discourse
  • 4.2 Subversion of the Image of the Spinster and Prudence's Creation of a Romantic World
  • 4.3 Subversion of the Male Image by Exposure of Men's Indolence and Self-Indulgence
  • Conclusion
  • Works Cited

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