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Ladies Laughing: Wit As Control in Contemporary American Women Writers (Studies in Humor & Gender Vol 3) - Hardcover

Levy, Barbara

 
9789056995423: Ladies Laughing: Wit As Control in Contemporary American Women Writers (Studies in Humor & Gender Vol 3)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9056995421 ISBN 13: 9789056995423
Verlag: Routledge, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

This engaging and accessible book examines the world of seven contemporary, popular American women writers and their individual use of wit as a subtle and effective strategy to engage, or "control", the reader. A chapter is devoted to each of the seven writers - Lisa Alther, Rita Mae Brown, Nora Ephron, Shirley Jackson, Alison Lurier, Grace Paley, and Anne Tyler - and discusses their writings and their use of wit in the context of their lives. An opening chapter frames wit and control in psychological realities, and a concluding chapter summarizes the power of wit. A bibliography of the writers' works is also included, making this an ideal introduction and companion to these writers and their works.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Barbara Levy

Barbara Levy currently teaches in the Institute for English Language Programs at Harvard University and was a professor in the Department of English, College of Humanities, at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras campus, for eighteen years.

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9056995421
ISBN 13 
9789056995423
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
194
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