- Description
- 1 online resource (viii, 241 p.)
- Series Statement
- Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
- Uniform Title
- Wit's end (Online)
- Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
- Alternative Title
- Wit's end (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2010000150
- OCLC
- ssj0000606161
- Author
Zwagerman, Sean.
- Title
Wit's end [electronic resource] : women's humor as rhetorical & performative strategy / Sean Zwagerman.
- Imprint
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2010.
- Series
Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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