Wit as Control in Contemporary American Women Writers
Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 307 g
ISBN: 978-90-5699-543-0
Verlag: Routledge
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate
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Weitere Infos & Material
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;