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Women and Humor: A Linguistic and Rhetorical Analysis of Joke Target
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Karman, Barbara A.
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Year and Degree
2013, PHD, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of English.
Abstract
Authors Marietta Holley, Fanny Fern and Harriet Beecher Stowe produced works of humorous fiction, parody and satire to advance discussion on the question of women’s suffrage and equality. Using The General Theory of Verbal Humor (Attardo and Raskin, 1994; Attardo, 1994) to analyze some of the joke targets used by these women writers, the dissertation argues that some works of early feminist humor are easily recast as proto feminist humor. Additionally, the dissertation argues that anti-feminist humor authored by Marietta Holley and Harriet Beecher Stowe was created to control the rhetorical discourse of more radical elements of the early suffrage movement. Finally, the dissertation recognizes the complexity of the development of feminist humor and acknowledges the importance of humor as a form of rhetorical persuasion used by these women writers.
Committee
Sara Newman, Dr. (Committee Chair)
Pages
180 p.
Subject Headings
American Literature
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Linguistics
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Rhetoric
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Womens Studies
Keywords
feminist humor
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19th century women's humor
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Karman, B. A. (2013).
Women and Humor: A Linguistic and Rhetorical Analysis of Joke Target
[Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1366049215
APA Style (7th edition)
Karman, Barbara.
Women and Humor: A Linguistic and Rhetorical Analysis of Joke Target.
2013. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1366049215.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Karman, Barbara. "Women and Humor: A Linguistic and Rhetorical Analysis of Joke Target." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1366049215
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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