Wit's end
Subtitle: women's humor as rhetorical and performative strategy
By: Sean Zwagerman.
Series: Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780822960744
Subjects: American wit and humor -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Humor in literature; Women in literature; Conversation in literature; Man-woman relationships in literature; Speech acts (Linguistics); Performative (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Like a marriage with a monkey" : an argument for the use of speech-act theory in the analysis of humor; title: Subversive potential meets social resistance : women's humor in Thurber, Hurston, and Parker; title: Generally unhappy : the deconstruction of speech acts and Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?; title: Comic relief : a stand-up performance by J.L. Austin and the consequences of not getting it; title: Failure revisited and authority regained : Louise Erdrich's Love medicine; title: Sisyphus's punch line : intentionality and humor as treatments for postmodern depression.