Women and Comedy
History, Theory, Practice
Herausgeber: Dickinson, Peter; St. Pierre, Paul Matthew; Higgins, Anne
Women and Comedy
History, Theory, Practice
Herausgeber: Dickinson, Peter; St. Pierre, Paul Matthew; Higgins, Anne
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Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice brings together leading researchers from Canada, the United States, and Europe in an interdisciplinary collection of essays to chart the future of critical inquiry in gender and comedy studies.
Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice brings together leading researchers from Canada, the United States, and Europe in an interdisciplinary collection of essays to chart the future of critical inquiry in gender and comedy studies.
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- Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
- Seitenzahl: 292
- Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2014
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
- Gewicht: 630g
- ISBN-13: 9781611476439
- ISBN-10: 1611476437
- Artikelnr.: 39890354
- Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
- Seitenzahl: 292
- Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2014
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
- Gewicht: 630g
- ISBN-13: 9781611476439
- ISBN-10: 1611476437
- Artikelnr.: 39890354
Edited by Peter Dickinson; Anne Higgins; Paul Matthew St. Pierre; Diana Solomon and Sean Zwagerman - Contributions by Regina Barreca; Jacky Bratton; Gilli Bush-Bailey; Lisa Colletta; Joanne Gilbert; Barbara Gold; Tarez Samra Graban; Shannon Hengen; Kirsty
Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Preface 000 Regina Barreca
Introduction: Dorothy Parker's Headache Peter Dickinson, Anne Higgins, Paul
Matthew St. Pierre, Diana Solomon, Sean Zwagerman Part I: Histories,
Politics and Forms Laughing Aphrodite Laurie O'Higgins Comedy in Ancient
Greece and Rome: What Was Funny, Whose Humor Was It, and How Do We Explain
the Jokes without Killing Them? Barbara Gold Mary and Her Sisters Anne
Higgins Feminist Humor without Women: The Challenge of Reading (in) the
Middle Ages Lisa Perfetti Laugh, or Forever Hold Your Peace: Comic Crowd
Control in Margaret Cavendish's Dramatic Prologues and Epilogues Diana
Solomon Domestic Manners of the Americans: A Transatlantic Phenomenon Linda
Morris Part II: Approaches, Texts and Audiences The Business of British
Burlesque Jacky Bratton The Comic Bodies and Obscene Voices of Burlesque
Joanna Mansbridge Elsie and Doris Waters: Four Songs Paul Matthew St.
Pierre "I'm Daphne": On the Comedy of Cross-Dressing and Metamorphosis in
Wilder's Some Like it Hot, Lubitsch's I Don't Want to be a Man, and Ovid's
Metamorphoses Kay Young Biting the Hand that Feeds Her: Patronage and
Comedy in Nineteenth-Century Theatre Gilli Bush-Bailey Out of the Box:
Comedy in Disability Theater by Canadian Women Kirsty Johnston Part III:
Topics, Theories and Practices Humoring the Female Pol: Irony,
Consciousness-Raising, and "Third-Culture" Discourse Tarez Samra Graban An
American Treasure: The Wit and Wisdom of Ann Coulter A Cautionary Tale: Ann
Coulter and the Failure of Humor Sean Zwagerman Lesbian Stand-Up Comics and
the Politics of Laughter Joanne Gilbert Layla Siddiqui as Holy Fool in
Little Mosque on the Prairie Shannon Hengen Postmodernity and the Gendered
Uses of Political Satire Lisa Colletta Coda: Try This at Home Peter
Dickinson Bibliography Contributors Index
Introduction: Dorothy Parker's Headache Peter Dickinson, Anne Higgins, Paul
Matthew St. Pierre, Diana Solomon, Sean Zwagerman Part I: Histories,
Politics and Forms Laughing Aphrodite Laurie O'Higgins Comedy in Ancient
Greece and Rome: What Was Funny, Whose Humor Was It, and How Do We Explain
the Jokes without Killing Them? Barbara Gold Mary and Her Sisters Anne
Higgins Feminist Humor without Women: The Challenge of Reading (in) the
Middle Ages Lisa Perfetti Laugh, or Forever Hold Your Peace: Comic Crowd
Control in Margaret Cavendish's Dramatic Prologues and Epilogues Diana
Solomon Domestic Manners of the Americans: A Transatlantic Phenomenon Linda
Morris Part II: Approaches, Texts and Audiences The Business of British
Burlesque Jacky Bratton The Comic Bodies and Obscene Voices of Burlesque
Joanna Mansbridge Elsie and Doris Waters: Four Songs Paul Matthew St.
Pierre "I'm Daphne": On the Comedy of Cross-Dressing and Metamorphosis in
Wilder's Some Like it Hot, Lubitsch's I Don't Want to be a Man, and Ovid's
Metamorphoses Kay Young Biting the Hand that Feeds Her: Patronage and
Comedy in Nineteenth-Century Theatre Gilli Bush-Bailey Out of the Box:
Comedy in Disability Theater by Canadian Women Kirsty Johnston Part III:
Topics, Theories and Practices Humoring the Female Pol: Irony,
Consciousness-Raising, and "Third-Culture" Discourse Tarez Samra Graban An
American Treasure: The Wit and Wisdom of Ann Coulter A Cautionary Tale: Ann
Coulter and the Failure of Humor Sean Zwagerman Lesbian Stand-Up Comics and
the Politics of Laughter Joanne Gilbert Layla Siddiqui as Holy Fool in
Little Mosque on the Prairie Shannon Hengen Postmodernity and the Gendered
Uses of Political Satire Lisa Colletta Coda: Try This at Home Peter
Dickinson Bibliography Contributors Index
Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Preface 000 Regina Barreca
Introduction: Dorothy Parker's Headache Peter Dickinson, Anne Higgins, Paul
Matthew St. Pierre, Diana Solomon, Sean Zwagerman Part I: Histories,
Politics and Forms Laughing Aphrodite Laurie O'Higgins Comedy in Ancient
Greece and Rome: What Was Funny, Whose Humor Was It, and How Do We Explain
the Jokes without Killing Them? Barbara Gold Mary and Her Sisters Anne
Higgins Feminist Humor without Women: The Challenge of Reading (in) the
Middle Ages Lisa Perfetti Laugh, or Forever Hold Your Peace: Comic Crowd
Control in Margaret Cavendish's Dramatic Prologues and Epilogues Diana
Solomon Domestic Manners of the Americans: A Transatlantic Phenomenon Linda
Morris Part II: Approaches, Texts and Audiences The Business of British
Burlesque Jacky Bratton The Comic Bodies and Obscene Voices of Burlesque
Joanna Mansbridge Elsie and Doris Waters: Four Songs Paul Matthew St.
Pierre "I'm Daphne": On the Comedy of Cross-Dressing and Metamorphosis in
Wilder's Some Like it Hot, Lubitsch's I Don't Want to be a Man, and Ovid's
Metamorphoses Kay Young Biting the Hand that Feeds Her: Patronage and
Comedy in Nineteenth-Century Theatre Gilli Bush-Bailey Out of the Box:
Comedy in Disability Theater by Canadian Women Kirsty Johnston Part III:
Topics, Theories and Practices Humoring the Female Pol: Irony,
Consciousness-Raising, and "Third-Culture" Discourse Tarez Samra Graban An
American Treasure: The Wit and Wisdom of Ann Coulter A Cautionary Tale: Ann
Coulter and the Failure of Humor Sean Zwagerman Lesbian Stand-Up Comics and
the Politics of Laughter Joanne Gilbert Layla Siddiqui as Holy Fool in
Little Mosque on the Prairie Shannon Hengen Postmodernity and the Gendered
Uses of Political Satire Lisa Colletta Coda: Try This at Home Peter
Dickinson Bibliography Contributors Index
Introduction: Dorothy Parker's Headache Peter Dickinson, Anne Higgins, Paul
Matthew St. Pierre, Diana Solomon, Sean Zwagerman Part I: Histories,
Politics and Forms Laughing Aphrodite Laurie O'Higgins Comedy in Ancient
Greece and Rome: What Was Funny, Whose Humor Was It, and How Do We Explain
the Jokes without Killing Them? Barbara Gold Mary and Her Sisters Anne
Higgins Feminist Humor without Women: The Challenge of Reading (in) the
Middle Ages Lisa Perfetti Laugh, or Forever Hold Your Peace: Comic Crowd
Control in Margaret Cavendish's Dramatic Prologues and Epilogues Diana
Solomon Domestic Manners of the Americans: A Transatlantic Phenomenon Linda
Morris Part II: Approaches, Texts and Audiences The Business of British
Burlesque Jacky Bratton The Comic Bodies and Obscene Voices of Burlesque
Joanna Mansbridge Elsie and Doris Waters: Four Songs Paul Matthew St.
Pierre "I'm Daphne": On the Comedy of Cross-Dressing and Metamorphosis in
Wilder's Some Like it Hot, Lubitsch's I Don't Want to be a Man, and Ovid's
Metamorphoses Kay Young Biting the Hand that Feeds Her: Patronage and
Comedy in Nineteenth-Century Theatre Gilli Bush-Bailey Out of the Box:
Comedy in Disability Theater by Canadian Women Kirsty Johnston Part III:
Topics, Theories and Practices Humoring the Female Pol: Irony,
Consciousness-Raising, and "Third-Culture" Discourse Tarez Samra Graban An
American Treasure: The Wit and Wisdom of Ann Coulter A Cautionary Tale: Ann
Coulter and the Failure of Humor Sean Zwagerman Lesbian Stand-Up Comics and
the Politics of Laughter Joanne Gilbert Layla Siddiqui as Holy Fool in
Little Mosque on the Prairie Shannon Hengen Postmodernity and the Gendered
Uses of Political Satire Lisa Colletta Coda: Try This at Home Peter
Dickinson Bibliography Contributors Index