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

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

Varghaiyan, Naghmeh

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Series: Studies in English Literatures

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3838215036
ISBN13: 9783838215037
Publisher: Ibidem Pr
Published: Apr 20 2021
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
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.

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