TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fuchs Abrams,Sabrina
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers
T2  - Palgrave Studies in Comedy
SN  - 9783319567297
AV  - PN843-846 
U1  - 809.7 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - America—Literatures
KW  - United States—Study and teaching
KW  - Literature—History and criticism
KW  - Culture
KW  - Gender
KW  - Comedy
KW  - North American Literature
KW  - American Culture
KW  - Literary History
KW  - Culture and Gender
KW  - Comedy Studies
N1  - Available to subscribing member institutions only. Доступно лише організаціям членам підписки
N2  - This collection is the first to focus on the iconoclastic and transformative power of American female humorists. It explores the work of authors and comediennes such as Samantha Bee, Amy Schumer, Lucille Clifton, Constance Rourke, Carolyn Wells, and Lynne Tillman while drawing on various theories of humor including the incongruity superiority/disparagement, and relief theories. The chapters draw from the experiences of women from a variety of racial, class, and gender identities and encompass a variety of genres and comedic forms including poetry, fiction, prose, autobiography, graphic memoir, comedic performance, and new media.Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers will appeal to a general educated readership as well as to those interested in women’s and gender studies, humor studies, urban studies, American literature and cultural studies, and media studies
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56729-7
ER  -