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The Rhetoric of Women’s Humour in Barbara Pym’s Fiction

Author: Naghmeh Varghaiyan

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2021-04-20

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 3838215036

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.

The Rhetoric of Women's Humour in Barbara Pym's Fiction

Author: Naghmeh Varghaiyan

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ISBN-13: 9783838275031

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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.

The Reality behind Barbara Pym's Excellent Women

Author: Robin R. Joyce

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2023-02-20

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1527589293

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This book analyses Barbara Pym’s published and unpublished work through a new image, that of the troublesome woman. It details the political nature of her work, highlighting her feminist ideas which are hidden in village-like settings and revealed by troublesome women. By exploring Pym’s written work, published, and unpublished, diaries and notebooks, the book shows that this material gives credence to Hilary Pym’s interpretation of her sister as a complex person.

Joinings and Disjoinings

Author: JoAnna Stephens Mink

Publisher: Popular Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 9780879725242

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Joinings and Disjoinings illustrates the importance of marriage or singleness in short stories and novels and suggests the diverse perspectives the topic can provide on specific works and on analysis of the cultural importance of marriage and marital status. Essays discuss canonical and lesser-known works, providing social, historical, and literary context.

Excellent Women

Author: Barbara Pym

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2006-12-26

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1101666250

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Excellent Women is probably the most famous of Barbara Pym's novels. The acclaim a few years ago for this early comic novel, which was hailed by Lord David Cecil as one of 'the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the past seventy-five years,' helped launch the rediscovery of the author's entire work. Mildred Lathbury is a clergyman's daughter and a spinster in the England of the 1950s, one of those 'excellent women' who tend to get involved in other people's lives - such as those of her new neighbor, Rockingham, and the vicar next door. This is Barbara Pym's world at its funniest.

The Rhetoric of Rage

Author: Sondra Melzer

Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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The Rhetoric of Rage explores the treatment of women from a contemporary feminist perspective and reveals the ways in which Parker's brittle humor reflects muted anger toward a patriarchal society. Through close examination of the texts, the work investigates the hidden discontents, the buried conflicts of women's lives and exposes the forces at work both implicitly and explicitly that shape their existence. The book locates links between the author's life and the fiction and elucidates the ways in which Parker lived her life in fiction and her fiction in life.