An edition of Wit's end (2010)

Wit's end

women's humor as rhetorical & performative strategy

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Wit's end
Sean Zwagerman
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Language
English
Pages
241

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Wit's end: women's humor as rhetorical & performative strategy
2010, University of Pittsburgh Press
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Pittsburgh, Pa
Series
Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture, Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
817.009/9287
Library of Congress
PS438 .Z89 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 241 p. ;
Number of pages
241

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24522928M
ISBN 10
0822960745
ISBN 13
9780822960744
LCCN
2010000150
OCLC/WorldCat
468973479

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