Publications

Publication details [#51299]

Darlington, Tenaya. 2009. Funny grrrls: Humor and contemporary women poets. Humor 22 (3) : 329–340.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

authority | humor | moral argumentation | poetry | women's language

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This paper focuses on how and why contemporary female American poets employ humor in their work. Humor is shown to constitute a disruption there, a means of authority assertion, and often a way by which female poets explore sexual and social morals.