Performing Gender and Comedy - Theories, Texts and Contexts

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

Shakespeare's Rosalind - character of contingency; One Said a Jealous Wife Was Like - the constructions of wives and husbands in 17th-century English jests; being and dying as a woman in the short fiction of Dorothy Parker; comic disruption in the work of Maxine Hong Kingston; parody and postmodern sex - humour in Thomas Pynchon and Tama Janowitz; heartburn, humour and hyperbole in Like Water for Chocolate; Raised by Poodles - an interview with sensible footwear.

About the author

Shannon Hengen

Product details

• Authors: Shannon Hengen, Hengen S, Hengen Shannon
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.08.1998
• EAN: 9789056995409
• ISBN: 978-90-5699-540-9
• No. of pages: 306
• Weight: 570 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Dance, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, Other performing arts, Literary studies: general, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Dance & Other Performing Arts