{"product_id":"wits-end-womens-humor-as-rhetorical-and-performative-strategy-paperback","title":"Wit's End: Women's Humor as Rhetorical and Performative Strategy - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSean Zwagerman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e Wit's End, \u003c\/i\u003e Sean Zwagerman offers an original perspective on women's use of humor as a performative strategy as seen in works of twentieth-century American literature. He argues that women whose direct, explicit performative speech has been traditionally denied, or not taken seriously, have often turned to humor as a means of communicating with men. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book examines both the potential and limits of women's humor as a rhetorical strategy in the writings of James Thurber, Zora Neale Hurston, Dorothy Parker, Edward Albee, Louise Erdrich, and others. For Zwagerman, these texts \"talk back\" to important arguments in humor studies and speech-act theory. He deconstructs the use of humor in select passages by employing the theories of J. L. Austin, John Searle, Jacques Derrida, Shoshana Felman, J. Hillis Miller, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Zwagerman offers arguments both for and against these approaches while advancing new thinking on humor as the \"end\"--both the goal and limit--of performative strategy, and as a means of expressing a full range of serious purposes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eZwagerman contends that women's humor is not solely a subversive act, but instead it should be viewed in the total speech situation through context, motives, and intended audience. Not strictly a transgressive influence, women's humor is seen as both a social corrective and a reinforcement of established ideologies. Humor has become an epistemology, an \"attitude\" or slant on one's relation to society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eZwagerman seeks to broaden the scope of performativity theory beyond the logical pragmatism of deconstruction and looks to the use of humor in literature as a deliberate stylization of experiences found in real-world social structures, and as a tool for change. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZwagerman contends that women\\u2019s humor is not solely a subversive act, but instead it should be viewed in the total speech situation through context, motives, and intended audience. Not strictly a transgressive influence, women\\u2019s humor is seen as both a social corrective and a reinforcement of established ideologies. Humor has become an epistemology, an \\u201cattitude\\u201d or slant on one\\u2019s relation to society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZwagerman seeks to broaden the scope of performativity theory beyond the logical pragmatism of deconstruction and looks to the use of humor in literature as a deliberate stylization of experiences found in real-world social structures, and as a tool for change.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSean Zwagerman\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of English at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.8 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 25, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53249556054323,"sku":"9780822960744","price":96.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/WfxB54Uz6m9780822960744.webp?v=1776329295","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/wits-end-womens-humor-as-rhetorical-and-performative-strategy-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}