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  1. Made-in-Canada humour
    literary, folk and popular culture
    Author: Rasporich, Beverly J.
    Published: [2015]; © 2015
    Publisher:  John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam

    Made-in-Canada Humour -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Foreword -- 1. Antique humour: New Eden dreamers and Sam Slick -- The moral humour and New Eden... more

    Location:
    Technische Universität Chemnitz, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Location:
    Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden
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    Made-in-Canada Humour -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Foreword -- 1. Antique humour: New Eden dreamers and Sam Slick -- The moral humour and New Eden dream of Thomas McCulloch -- Haliburton's battle of the sexes -- Dreaming of better worlds: James de Mille -- The continuing company of Christian reformers: J. W. Bengough -- Conclusion -- 2. Canada's remarkable humorist Stephen Leacock (1869-1944): Bridging Uncle Sam and Mother England -- Betwixt and between two cultures -- American influences -- The American little man and his Canadian alter ego -- British, American and Canadian humour: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town and Arcadian Adventures wi -- Conclusion -- 3. Folk humour in the country and in the city: The Side Hill Gouger and other myths -- Bob Edwards: Raising a ruckus in the early West -- Male fraternity in the outback -- The tall tale -- Outback heroes: Local and across the 49th parallel -- The "Indians" fill up the west and possibly the world -- Urban myths of city folk -- Conclusion -- 4. 20th century literary humour: Protest and resistance -- Satirical poets of the 20th century -- Poetry of comic relief -- Made in Canada humour: Sarah Binks and Samuel Marchbanks -- Native voice and cultural appropriation: Basil Johnston and W. P. Kinsella -- Québecois and Acadian humour: A touch of gothic -- Black and blue humour: Mordecai Richler -- Studly men and postmodern possibilities: Robert Kroetsch and Leonard Cohen -- Feminine and feminist revolt: Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood -- Conclusion -- 5. 20th century print humour and cartoons: Amusing the people and provoking the politicians -- Popular Canadian humorists in print -- The editorial cartoon: Its function and place The nation's capital: Roy Peterson, Duncan Macpherson and Terry Mosher -- Regional cartoonists of the West: Arch Dale, Stewart Cameron, and Everett Soop -- The comic strip: A barnacle or ship? -- Conclusion -- 6. Joking at the margins: Ethnicity, race and gender -- Ethnic joking -- Female jokesters and feminist humour -- Conclusion -- 7. Popular comedy on stage and in the media: Towards a continental humour -- Canada's peace keeping comedians -- Just plain folks -- The Bob and Doug Mackenzie phenomenon -- Exporting John Candy and importing Homer Simpson -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Previous publications -- Select references -- Index

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789027268174
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    RVK Categories: HD 325
    Series: Topics in Humor Research ; volume 3
    Subjects: Canadian wit and humor--History and criticism
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (XX, 300 Seiten), Illustrationen
  2. Made-in-Canada Humour. Literary, folk and popular culture
    Author: Rasporich, Beverly J.
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  John Benjamins Publishing Company, Philadelphia

    Made-in-Canada Humour -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Foreword -- 1. Antique humour: New Eden dreamers and Sam Slick -- The moral humour and New Eden... more

    Location:
    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Online-Ressource
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    Made-in-Canada Humour -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Foreword -- 1. Antique humour: New Eden dreamers and Sam Slick -- The moral humour and New Eden dream of Thomas McCulloch -- Haliburton's battle of the sexes -- Dreaming of better worlds: James de Mille -- The continuing company of Christian reformers: J. W. Bengough -- Conclusion -- 2. Canada's remarkable humorist Stephen Leacock (1869-1944): Bridging Uncle Sam and Mother England -- Betwixt and between two cultures -- American influences -- The American little man and his Canadian alter ego -- British, American and Canadian humour: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town and Arcadian Adventures wi -- Conclusion -- 3. Folk humour in the country and in the city: The Side Hill Gouger and other myths -- Bob Edwards: Raising a ruckus in the early West -- Male fraternity in the outback -- The tall tale -- Outback heroes: Local and across the 49th parallel -- The "Indians" fill up the west and possibly the world -- Urban myths of city folk -- Conclusion -- 4. 20th century literary humour: Protest and resistance -- Satirical poets of the 20th century -- Poetry of comic relief -- Made in Canada humour: Sarah Binks and Samuel Marchbanks -- Native voice and cultural appropriation: Basil Johnston and W. P. Kinsella -- Québecois and Acadian humour: A touch of gothic -- Black and blue humour: Mordecai Richler -- Studly men and postmodern possibilities: Robert Kroetsch and Leonard Cohen -- Feminine and feminist revolt: Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood -- Conclusion -- 5. 20th century print humour and cartoons: Amusing the people and provoking the politicians -- Popular Canadian humorists in print -- The editorial cartoon: Its function and place The nation's capital: Roy Peterson, Duncan Macpherson and Terry Mosher -- Regional cartoonists of the West: Arch Dale, Stewart Cameron, and Everett Soop -- The comic strip: A barnacle or ship? -- Conclusion -- 6. Joking at the margins: Ethnicity, race and gender -- Ethnic joking -- Female jokesters and feminist humour -- Conclusion -- 7. Popular comedy on stage and in the media: Towards a continental humour -- Canada's peace keeping comedians -- Just plain folks -- The Bob and Doug Mackenzie phenomenon -- Exporting John Candy and importing Homer Simpson -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Previous publications -- Select references -- Index

     
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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789027268174
    Subjects: Canadian wit and humor--History and criticism
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (324 pages)