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Author Zwagerman, Sean.

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

Publication Info. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2010]
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012.
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 241 pages)
text file
Series Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Note OldControl:muse9780822973775.
"Multi-User"
Bibliography 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Issued By Made available online by Project Muse.
Subject Performative (Philosophy)
Performative (Philosophy)
Speech acts (Linguistics)
Speech acts (Linguistics)
Man-woman relationships in literature.
Man-woman relationships in literature.
Conversation in literature.
Conversation in literature.
Women in literature.
Women in literature.
Humor in literature.
Humor in literature.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject American wit and humor -- History and criticism.
American wit and humor.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Indexed Term "Multi-User"
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Dictionaries.
Dictionaries.
Added Author Project Muse.
Other Form: Print version: Zwagerman, Sean. Wit's end : women's humor as rhetorical & performative strategy. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2010 viii, 241 pages Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture. 9780822960744 2010000150
ISBN 9780822973775 electronic book
0822973774 electronic book
9780822960744 paperback alkaline paper
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