Humor and Masculinity in U.S. Fiction
Joseph L. Coulombe, "Humor and Masculinity in U.S. Fiction "
English | ISBN: 1032752149 | 2024 | 172 pages | EPUB | 1525 KB
English | ISBN: 1032752149 | 2024 | 172 pages | EPUB | 1525 KB
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
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