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.
Naghmeh Varghaiyan
Naghmeh Varghaiyan is lecturer of English Language and Literature at Agri Ibrahim Cecen University, Türkiye. Her main research and teaching interests are in twentieth and twenty-first-century English Literature. Varghaiyan’s work has appeared in various peer-reviewed journals and edited collections.
Orna Raz
| Delivery time | Delivery time 2-3 working days. |
| Preface by | Orna Raz |
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| Number of Pages | 234 |
| Format | 8,3 in x 5,8 in |
| Language | English |
| Type | Paperback |
| Publication date | 20.04.2021 |
| ISBN | 978-3-8382-1503-7 |
| Weight | 305 g |
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"A significant contribution to Pym scholarship, an important and insightful study."—Orna Raz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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