Wit's end : women's humor as rhetorical & performative strategy /
Zwagerman, Sean.
Wit's end : women's humor as rhetorical & performative strategy / Sean Zwagerman. - Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, (c)2010. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, (c)2012). - 1 online resource (viii, 241 pages)
OldControl:muse9780822973775.
Includes bibliographies and index.
"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.
9780822973775
Performative (Philosophy)
Speech acts (Linguistics)
Man-woman relationships in literature.
Conversation in literature.
Women in literature.
Humor in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
American wit and humor--History and criticism.
"Multi-User"
Electronic Books.
PS438 / .W587 2010
Wit's end : women's humor as rhetorical & performative strategy / Sean Zwagerman. - Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, (c)2010. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, (c)2012). - 1 online resource (viii, 241 pages)
OldControl:muse9780822973775.
Includes bibliographies and index.
"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.
9780822973775
Performative (Philosophy)
Speech acts (Linguistics)
Man-woman relationships in literature.
Conversation in literature.
Women in literature.
Humor in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
American wit and humor--History and criticism.
"Multi-User"
Electronic Books.
PS438 / .W587 2010