Zwagerman, Sean. <br/><br/>
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) 
<br/><br/> OldControl:muse9780822973775. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>"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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780822973775 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Performative (Philosophy)<br/>Speech acts (Linguistics)<br/>Man-woman relationships in literature.<br/>Conversation in literature.<br/>Women in literature.<br/>Humor in literature.<br/>American literature--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>American wit and humor--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>"Multi-User" 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS438  / .W587 2010