James Thurber's Little Man and the Battle of the Sexes: The Humor of Gender and Conflict

James Thurber, along with others who wrote for The New Yorker magazine, developed the 'little man' comic figure. The little man as a central character was a shift from earlier nineteenth-century traditions in humor. This twentieth-century protagonist was a comic antihero whose function was...

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Main Author: Jorgensen, Andrew S.
Format: Others
Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2006
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Online Access:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/946
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1945&context=etd