Untamed and unabashed essays on women and humor in British literature
In Untamed and Unabashed, Regina Barreca, noted authority on women and humor, examines the use of humor in the works of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark, and Fay Weldon. She analyzes the ways that each writer uses comedic devices, especially those involving...
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| Format: | UnknownFormat |
| Sprache: | eng |
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Detroit, Mich.
Wayne State Univ. Press
1994
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| Schriftenreihe: | Humor in life and letters series
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| Schlagworte: |
Geschichte 1750-1991
> Femmes et littérature - Grande-Bretagne
> Humour anglais - Histoire et critique
> Roman anglais - Histoire et critique
> Récits humoristiques anglais - Histoire et critique
> Écrits de femmes anglais - Histoire et critique
> English fiction
> Women authors
> English wit and humor
> History and criticism
> Humorous stories, English
> Women and literature
> Englisch
> Humor
> Geschichte
> Frau
> Roman
> Frauenroman
> Romanschriftstellerin
> Großbritannien
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | In Untamed and Unabashed, Regina Barreca, noted authority on women and humor, examines the use of humor in the works of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark, and Fay Weldon. She analyzes the ways that each writer uses comedic devices, especially those involving language itself, and discusses the gendered basis of their humor, providing a provocative feminist perspective on gender and comedy Each of the essays argues that conservative critics have misread and misunderstood the importance of humor in the works of these women authors, and that women's humor serves to explode conventions oppressive to women and to offer women readers a critique of, and an alternative perspective on, the dominant cultural ideologies that contain and oppress them The book concludes that these authors strategically deployed humor, coded in forms that women readers - but not men readers - would recognize and understand, as a means of educating and empowering those women readers |
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| Beschreibung: | 191 S. |
| ISBN: | 0814321364 0-8143-2136-4 |