TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zwagerman,Sean
TI  - Wit's end: women's humor as rhetorical & performative strategy 
SN  - 9780822973775
AV  - PS438 .W587 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Pittsburgh, Pa.
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
KW  - Performative (Philosophy)
KW  - Speech acts (Linguistics)
KW  - Man-woman relationships in literature
KW  - Conversation in literature
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - Humor in literature
KW  - American literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - American wit and humor
KW  - "Multi-User"
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - OldControl:muse9780822973775; 2; "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; 2; b
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