Wit's end : women's humor as rhetorical & performative strategy / Sean Zwagerman.

• "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.

Ämnesord

Kvinnor i litteraturen  (sao)

Amerikansk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

Humor in literature.  (LCSH)

Women in literature.  (LCSH)

Conversation in literature.  (LCSH)

Man-woman relationships in literature.  (LCSH)

Speech acts (Linguistics)  (LCSH)

Performative (Philosophy)  (LCSH)

American wit and humor  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

American literature  -- 20th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Litteraturvetenskap  (kao)

Författare  -- Förenta staterna -- 1900-talet (kao)

Humor  -- retorik (kao)

Amerikansk humor  -- historia (sao)

Women in literature  (LCSH)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Geq.0971 Litteraturhistoria: amerikansk: satir och humor

Klassifikation

817.0099287 (DDC)

Geq.0971 (kssb/8)