The Rhetoric of Rage: Women in Dorothy Parker

Authors

Sondra Melzer, Sacred Heart University

Document Type

Book

Publication Date

1997

Abstract

The Rhetoric of Rage explores the treatment of women from a contemporary feminist perspective and reveals the ways in which Parker's brittle humor reflects muted anger toward a patriarchal society. Through close examination of the texts, the work investigates the hidden discontents, the buried conflicts of women's lives and exposes the forces at work both implicitly and explicitly that shape their existence. The book locates links between the author's life and the fiction and elucidates the ways in which Parker live her life in fiction and her fiction in life.

Comments

ISBN: 9780820430386

Recommended Citation

Melzer, S. (1997). The rhetoric of rage: Women in Dorothy Parker. Peter Lang.