Wit's End : Women's Humor as Rhetorical and Performative Strategy /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zwagerman, Sean
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.
Series:Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Performative (Philosophy)
Speech acts (Linguistics)
Man-woman relationships in literature.
Conversation in literature.
Women in literature.
Humor in literature.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American wit and humor > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Like a marriage with a monkey" : an argument for the use of speech-act theory in the analysis of humor
  • Subversive potential meets social resistance : women's humor in Thurber, Hurston, and Parker
  • Generally unhappy : the deconstruction of speech acts and Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Comic relief : a stand-up performance by J.L. Austin and the consequences of not getting it
  • Failure revisited and authority regained : Louise Erdrich's Love medicine
  • Sisyphus's punch line : intentionality and wit as treatment for postmodern depression.

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