Barbara Levy

Ladies Laughing (eBook, ePUB)

Wit as Control in Contemporary American Women Writers

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This engaging and accessible book examines the world of seven contemporary, popular American women writers and their individual use of wit as a subtle and effective strategy to engage, or "control", the reader.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134385935
• Artikelnr.: 39907553

Autorenporträt

Barbara Levy

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Forerunners: Dorothy Parker, Dawn Powell, Betty MacDonald
Chapter 3 Nora Ephron: All You Ever Wanted to Know About Control.... (But feared you'd appear too manipulative if you asked)
Chapter 4 Shirley Jackson: "In the country of the story, the writer is King."
Chapter 5 Alison Lurie: "Writing was a Kind of Witch's Spell"
Chapter 6 Grace Paley: The Ear is Smarter than the Eye
Chapter 7 Anne Tyler: Seeing Through a "Mist of Irony"
Chapter 8 Lisa Alther: Playing for the Laugh: Comic Control in Kinflicks
Chapter 9 Rita Mae Brown: "An Equal Opportunity Offender"
Chapter 10 Conclusion: What Wit Controlled