The Humor Prism in 20th Century American Society

Boskin

• Paperback | Engels | Humor in Life and Letters
• Why do some jokes evaporate after the telling while others are transmitted to subsequent generations? Just what property of humor allows it to touch d... Lees meer

Humor in Borges

Rene de Costa

• Hardcover | Engels | Humor in Life and Letters
• Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), an Argentine writer of serious avant-garde poetry and prose, often wrote of the humor in the works of contemporaneous a... Lees meer

Comedian as Confidence Man

Will Kaufman

• Paperback | Engels | Humor in Life and Letters
• In this lively and fascinating analysis of humorists and their work, Will Kaufman breaks new ground with his irony fatigue theory. The Comedian as Con... Lees meer

Performing Marginality

Joanne R Gilbert

• Paperback | Engels | Humor in Life and Letters
• A rhetorical analysis of female stand-up comics that explores the relationships among humor, gender, and power in contemporary culture. How do contemp... Lees meer

Writing Humor

Mary Ann Rishel

• Paperback | Engels | Humor in Life and Letters
• Providing both theory and praxis, this insightful and creative textbook explains how to write humor, comedy, satire, parody, nonsense, and both the li... Lees meer

Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing

Alan Dundes, Carl R Pagter

• Paperback | Engels | Humor in Life and Letters
• Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing documents the thriving folklore tradition that circulates in the workplace. Alan Dundes and Carl Pagter have collecte... Lees meer

Jewish Way

• Paperback | Engels | Humor in Life and Letters
• When the Jews of Eastern Europe came to the United States in the 19th century, they brought with them their own special humor. Developed in response t... Lees meer

Work Hard and You Shall Be Rewarded

Alan Dundes, Carl Pagter

• Paperback | Engels | Humor in Life and Letters
• Anyone who has ever filled in a form in triplicate, taken an aptitude test, or been rebuffed by a form letter will appreciate the urban folklore found... Lees meer

Laughing Feminism

Audrey Bilger

• Paperback | Engels | Humor in Life and Letters
• Laughing Feminism focuses on comedy in the works of Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen, authors who scrutinized the subjected prejudices... Lees meer

Understanding Humor in Japan

• Paperback | Engels | Humor in Life and Letters
• Japanese conventions about comedy and laughter are largely unanalyzed. For many students of Japanese culture and visitors to Japan, Japanese humor see... Lees meer