HATE AND HUMOR IN WOMEN'S WRITING: A DISCUSSION OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY AUTHORS.

Title: HATE AND HUMOR IN WOMEN'S WRITING: A DISCUSSION OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY AUTHORS.
Identifier: AAI8713744
identifier: 8713744
Creator: BARRECA, REGINA R.
Contributor: Gerhard Jose
Date: 1987
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Literature, English
Abstract: Anger and comedy are interlocking forces present in many writings by women. It is my argument that women write comedy in order to intrude upon, to disturb and to disrupt expectations raised by traditional narrative forms; that comedy constructed by women is linked to aggression and the need to break free of socially and culturally imposed restraints. Employed by women, humor usually reveals the implicit presence of ideas and emotions which can be expressed only through a sort of covert language, masking the writers' subversion of public authority and disguising the radical potentials of their texts. My points are discussed within a theoretical framework for the first half of the dissertation. The second section provides detailed arguments concerning the uses of anger and comedy in the works of Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark and Fay Weldon.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.
Program: English

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