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Title: |
The Rhetoric of Womenâ s Humour in Barbara Pymâ s Fiction |
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| By (author): |
Naghmeh Varghaiyan Series edited by: Koray Melikoglu Preface by: Orna Raz |
| ISBN10-13: |
3838215036 : 9783838215037 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
210x148mm |
| Pages: |
234 |
| Weight: |
.305 Kg. |
| Published: |
ibidem - April 2021 |
| List Price: |
31.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 4 |
| Subjects: |
Literary studies: general : United Kingdom, Great Britain |
| In this study of three of Barbara Pymâ s novels, Naghmeh Varghaiyan, drawing on examinations of womenâ s humour by Eileen Gillooly, Regina Barreca, and others, shows how the humorous female discourse in Some Tame Gazelle, Excellent Women, and Jane and Prudence undermines patriarchal culture and subverts both female and male stereotypes such as that of the spinster and of the Byronic hero. Varghaiyan reveals how the rhetoric of womenâ s humour enables Pymâ s female characters to survive in the patriarchal culture and to unsettle it. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Introduction; Characteristics of Women’s Humour; Some Tame Gazelle: Construction of Women’s Veiled Humour; Excellent Women: Humour of Mildred Regarded as an Excellent Woman; Jane and Prudence: Unconventional Wife and Satisfied Spinster; Conclusion. |
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"A significant contribution to Pym scholarship, an important and insightful study." — Orna Raz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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