First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Shakespeare's Rosalind - character of contingency; One Said a Jealous Wife Was Like - the constructions of wives and husbands in 17th-century English jests; being and dying as a woman in the short fiction of Dorothy Parker; comic disruption in the work of Maxine Hong Kingston; parody and postmodern sex - humour in Thomas Pynchon and Tama Janowitz; heartburn, humour and hyperbole in Like Water for Chocolate; Raised by Poodles - an interview with sensible footwear.