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The rhetoric of women's humour in Barbara Pym's fiction /

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 subver...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Varghaiyan, Naghmeh (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stuttgart : Ibidem-Verlag, [2021]
Series:	Studies in English literatures ; Bd. 21.
Subjects:	Pym, Barbara > Criticism and interpretation.

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