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Subject(s)

• American fiction—History and criticism [Browse]
• Masculinity in literature [Browse]
• Humor in literature [Browse]
• American wit and humor—History and criticism [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Literary criticism [Browse]

Series

Routledge research in American literature and culture [More in this series]

Summary note

"Humor and Masculinity in U.S. Fiction offers a pragmatic and theoretically informed model for analyzing how humor and gender intersect in key U.S. texts, bringing much needed attention to the complex ways that humor can support and/or subvert reductive masculine codes and behaviors. Its argument builds upon three major humor theories - the incongruity theory, superiority theory, and relief theory - to analyze how humor is used to negotiate the shifting constructions of masculinity and manhood in American culture and literature. Focusing on explicit textual references to joking, pranks, and laughter, Humor and Masculinity in U.S. Fiction offers well-supported, original interpretations of works by Mark Twain, Owen Wister, Dorothy Parker, Zora Neale Hurston, Joseph Heller, Philip Roth, and Sherman Alexie. The primary goal of Humor and Masculinity in U.S. Fiction is to understand the multiple ways that humor performs and interrogates masculinity in seminal U.S. texts"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other title(s)

Humor and masculinity in United States fiction

ISBN

• 9781032752143 (hardcover)
• 1032752149 (hardcover)
• 9781032752150 (paperback)
• 1032752157 (paperback)

LCCN

2024028263

OCLC

1456861924

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