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Wit's end : women's humor as rhetorical & performative strategy / Sean Zwagerman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, (c)2010.; (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, (c)2012).Description: 1 online resource (viii, 241 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822973775
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS438 .W587 2010
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Contents:
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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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.

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