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Wit's end : women's humor as rhetorical & performative strategy
- Title
- Wit's end : women's humor as rhetorical & performative strategy / Sean Zwagerman.
- Author
- Zwagerman, Sean.
- Publication
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2010.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 241 p.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
- Uniform Title
- Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-4855
- ISBN
- 9780822960744 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0822960745 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010000150
- OCLC
- YBP 2010000150
- Author
- Zwagerman, Sean.
- Title
- Wit's end : women's humor as rhetorical & performative strategy / Sean Zwagerman.
- Imprint
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2010.
- Series
- Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culturePittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-4855