Gail Finney

Look Who's Laughing (eBook, PDF)

Gender and Comedy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 1994. Look Who's Laughing belies the notion that in a joke the only place for a woman is in the butt, Rather than analysing women's humor in isolation, Gail Finney and twenty scholars map the terrain that the genders share and the areas that each hold exclusively. Their essays investigate witty heroines, sexual parodies, domestic humor and romantic power. They focus on comic drama and fiction, stand-up comedy, cartoons, and film describing the roles gender has played in the creation, reception and interpretation of comedy from the sixteenth century to present. They consider works by Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Zora Neale Hurston and Virginia Woolf, whilst discussing characters such as V.I. Warshawski, Molly Bloom and Elizabeth Bennet. The book's emphasis on comedy's diverse sources uncovers critical prejudices and defines new contexts enabling men and women to understand more about each other's attitudes towards humor, its means and ends.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 377
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134304660
• Artikelnr.: 41208934

Autorenporträt

Gail Finney University of California, Davis

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Unity in Difference?: An Introduction
Gail Finney; Part I Drama; Chapter 2 "That's How It Is": Comic Travesties of Sex and Gender in Early Sixteenth-Century Venice
Eric A. Nicholson; Chapter 3 Imagining Consummation: Women's Erotic Language in Comedies of Dekker and Shakespeare
Mary Bly; Chapter 4 Dwindling into Wifehood: The Romantic Power of the Witty Heroine in Shakespeare
Dryden
Congreve
and Austen
Donald A. Bloom; Chapter 5 Confinement Sharpens the Invention: Aphra Behn's The Rover and Susanna Centlivre's The Busie Body
Suz-Anne Kinney; Chapter 6 Masquerade
Modesty
and Comedy in Hannah Cowley's The Belle's Strategem
Erin Isikoff; Chapter 7 The Sphinx Goes Wild(e): Ada Leverson
Oscar Wilde
and the Gender Equipollence of Parody
Corinna Sundararajan Rohse; Part II Fiction; Chapter 8 When Women Laugh Wildly and (Gentle)Men Roar: Victorian Embodiments Of Laughter
Karen C. Gindele; Chapter 9 The Feminine Laughter of No Return: James Joyce and Dorothy Richardson
Kristin Bluemel; Chapter 10 Courtship
Comedy
and African-American Expressive Culture in Zora Neale Hurston's Fiction
Barbara Monroe; Chapter 11 Feminism/Gender/Comedy: Meredith
Woolf
and the Reconfiguration of Comic Distance
David McWhirter; Chapter 12 "Between the Gaps": Sex
Class and Anarchy in the British Comic Novel of World War II
Phyllis Lassner; Chapter 13 Alice Childress's Like One of the Family: Domestic and Undomesticated Domestic Humor
Zita Z. Dresner; Chapter 14 Funny
Isn't It?: Testing the Boundaries of Gender and Genre in Women's Detective Fiction
Gloria A. Biamonte; Part III Film
Stand-Up Comedy
and Cartoon Art; Chapter 15 Hollywood
1934: "Inventing" Romantic Comedy
Kay Young; Chapter 16 Mae West Was Not a Man: Sexual Parody and Genre in the Plays and Films of Mae West
Andrea J. Ivanov; Chapter 17 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: Sexism or Emancipation from Machismo?
Florence Redding Jessup; Chapter 18 Between the Laughter: Bridging Feminist Studies through Women's Stand-Up Comedy
Allison Fraiberg; Chapter 19 Comic Strip-Tease: A Revealing Look at Women Cartoon Artists
Jaye Berman Montresor;