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women's humor as rhetorical & performative strategy

"Wit's end" was published by University of Pittsburgh Press in 2010 - Pittsburgh, Pa, it has 241 pages and the language of the book is English.


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  • Title: Wit's end
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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 241
  • Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
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  • Publish Location: Pittsburgh, Pa

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  • Pagination: viii, 241 p. ;

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"Wit's end" Table Of Contents:

  • 1- "Like a marriage with a monkey" : an argument for the use of speech-act theory in the analysis of humor
  • 2- Subversive potential meets social resistance : women's humor in Thurber, Hurston, and Parker
  • 3- Generally unhappy : the deconstruction of speech acts and Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • 4- Comic relief : a stand-up performance by J.L. Austin and the consequences of not getting it
  • 5- Failure revisited and authority regained : Louise Erdrich's Love medicine
  • 6- Sisyphus's punch line : intentionality and wit as treatment for postmodern depression.

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