1st Edition
Ladies Laughing Wit as Control in Contemporary American Women Writers
By Barbara Levy
Copyright 1997
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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This engaging and accessible book examines the world of seven contemporary, popular American women writers and their individual use of wit as a subtle and effective strategy to engage, or "control", the reader. A chapter is devoted to each of the seven writers - Lisa Alther, Rita Mae Brown, Nora Ephron, Shirley Jackson, Alison Lurier, Grace Paley, and Anne Tyler - and discusses their writings and... Read more
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;
Biography
Barbara Levy
