The Rhetoric of Women¿s Humour in Barbara Pym¿s Fiction

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-3-8382-1503-7
Verlag: ibidem-Verlag

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 234 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 309 g

Reihe: Studies in English Literatures

In this study of three of Barbara Pym’s novels, Naghmeh Varghaiyan, drawing on examinations of women’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 women’s humour enables Pym’s female characters to survive in the patriarchal culture and to unsettle it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Varghaiyan, Naghmeh

Melikoglu, Koray

Weitere Mitwirkende

Melikoglu, Koray

Raz, Orna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien

Über Autor(innen)

Naghmeh Varghaiyan is assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, Agri Ibrahim Cecen University, Agri, Turkey. Her research interests include Feminism, Women’s Literature, Feminist Marxist theory, and Women’s Humour.