EAN: 9783838215037

STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURES THE RHETORIC O...

In this study of three of Barbara Pym's novels  Naghmeh Varghaiyan  drawing on examinations of
women's humour by Eileen Gillooly  Regina Barreca  and others  shows how the humorous female
discourse in Some Tame Gazelle  Excellent Women  and Jane and Prudence undermines patriarchal
culture and subverts both female and male stereotypes such as that of the spinster and of the
Byronic hero. Varghaiyan reveals how the rhetoric of women's humour enables Pym's female
characters to survive in the patriarchal culture and to unsettle it.

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