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The Rhetoric of Women's Humour in Barbara Pym's Fiction
The Rhetoric of Women's Humour in Barbara Pym's Fiction in Bloomington, MN
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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.
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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