Wit's End: Women's Humor as Rhetorical and Performative Strategy (Composition, Literacy, and Culture)

by SeanZwagerman (Author)

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  Paperback
  2010

  $59.38

  Offers an original perspective on women's use of humor as a performative strategy as seen in works of twentieth-century American literature. This book argues that women whose direct, explicit performative speech has been traditionally denied, or not taken seriously, have often turned to humor as a means of communicating with men.