Performing Gender and Comedy: Theories, Texts and Contexts

ISBN-13: 9789056995393 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 306 str.

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Opis

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spis treści

Shakespeare's Rosalind - character of contingency; "One Said a Jealous Wife Was Like" - the constructions of wives and husbands in 17th-century English jests; being and dying as a woman in the short fiction of Dorothy Parker; comic disruption in the work of Maxine Hong Kingston; parody and postmodern sex - humour in Thomas Pynchon and Tama Janowitz; heartburn, humour and hyperbole in "Like Water for Chocolate"; "Raised by Poodles" - an interview with sensible footwear.

O autorze

Shannon Hengen