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  1. Erec and Enide
    Published: [1992]; ©1992
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    In this new verse translation of one of the great works of French literature, Dorothy Gilbert captures the vivacity, wit, and grace of the first known Arthurian romance. Erec and Enide is the story of the quest and coming of age of a young knight, an... more

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    In this new verse translation of one of the great works of French literature, Dorothy Gilbert captures the vivacity, wit, and grace of the first known Arthurian romance. Erec and Enide is the story of the quest and coming of age of a young knight, an illustrious member of Arthur's court, who must learn to balance the demands of a masculine public life—tests of courage, skill, adaptability, and mature judgment—with the equally urgent demands of the private world of love and marriage. We see his wife, Enide, develop as an exemplar of chivalry in the female, not as an Amazon, but as a brave, resolute, and wise woman. Composed ca. 1170, Erec and Enide masterfully combines elements of Celtic legend, classical and ecclesiastical learning, and French medieval culture and ideals.In choosing to write in rhymed octosyllabic couplets–Chrétien's prosodic pattern–Dorothy Gilbert has tried to reproduce what so often gets lost in prose or free verse translations: the precise and delicate meter; the rhyme, with its rich possibilities for emphasis, nuance, puns and jokes; and the "mantic power" implicit in proper names. The result will enable the scholar who cannot read Old French, the student of literature, and the general reader to gain a more sensitive and immediate understanding of the form and spirit of Chrétien's poetry, and to appreciate the more Chrétien's great contribution to European literature

     

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  2. Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living
    A Handbook for the Damned Human Race
    Author: Twain, Mark
    Published: [2004]; ©2004
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    Irreverent, charming, eminently "able, this handbook—an eccentric etiquette guide for the human race—contains sixty-nine aphorisms, anecdotes, whimsical suggestions, maxims, and cautionary tales from Mark Twain's private and published writings. It... more

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    Irreverent, charming, eminently "able, this handbook—an eccentric etiquette guide for the human race—contains sixty-nine aphorisms, anecdotes, whimsical suggestions, maxims, and cautionary tales from Mark Twain's private and published writings. It dispenses advice and reflections on family life and public manners; opinions on topics such as dress, health, food, and childrearing and safety; and more specialized tips, such as those for dealing with annoying salesmen and burglars. Culled from Twain's personal letters, autobiographical writings, speeches, novels, and sketches, these pieces are delightfully fresh, witty, startlingly relevant, and bursting with Twain's characteristic ebullience for life. They also remind us exactly how Mark Twain came to be the most distinctive and well-known American literary voice in the world. These texts, some of them new or out of print for decades, have been selected and meticulously prepared by the editors at the Mark Twain Project

     

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    Contributor: Fischer, Victor (HerausgeberIn); Frank, Michael Barry (HerausgeberIn); Salamo, Lin (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780520931343
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    Series: Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and Celebrated Writings of Mark Twain ; 2
    Subjects: Conduct of life; Conduct of life; Conduct of life; Conduct of life; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
    Other subjects: american author; american literature; anecdotes; aphorisms; autobiography; biography; burglars; childrearing; children; classic literature; classic; classics; comic; dress; etiquette; fashion; fiction; food; funny; grooming; guidebook; health; history; humor; hygiene; jokes; letters; literary celebrity; literary criticism; literary sketch; literature; maxims; memoir; parenting; rogues; salesman; satire; short stories; social commentary; social life; society; speeches; twain; unpublished twain
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  3. Fun jokes 18+
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  BookRix, München

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    Other subjects: (Produktform)Electronic book text; (VLB-WN)9554; Humor; joke; jokes; history; laught; funny; fun; smile; (VLB-WN)9180
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  4. Verbal Humour and Jokes in Shaw's HH and Coward's RV
    A Pragma-Stylistic Study
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken

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    ISBN: 9783659877346; 3659877344
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    Other subjects: (Produktform)Electronic book text; jokes; Verbal Humour; Humorous Text Theory; Heartbreak House play; Relative Values play; Humour; Comedy; George Bernard Shaw; Noel Coward; (VLB-WN)1564: Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft
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  5. Humor is when you laugh even more
    For a good mood and laughing without end - humorous and witty, colorfully mixed
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  BookRix, München

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    Other subjects: (Produktform)Electronic book text; humor; jokes; laugh; laughter; laughing; giggling; cackling; mood; (VLB-WN)9180
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  6. The Anatomy of Linguistic Jokes
    Author: Lew, Robert
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken

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    ISBN: 9783659799518; 3659799513
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    Other subjects: (Produktform)Electronic book text; ambiguity; Humour; jokes; (VLB-WN)1564: Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft
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  7. Inglês com jokes
    Uma proposta intercultural para o ensino médio
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Novas Edições Acadêmicas, Saarbrücken

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    Language: Portuguese
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    ISBN: 9783841707246; 3841707246
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    Other subjects: (Produktform)Electronic book text; Aspectos culturais; jokes; implícitos e ambiguidade; ensino-aprendizagem de ILE; atividades; (VLB-WN)1560: Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft
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  8. Good Humor, Bad Taste
    A Sociology of the Joke
    Published: 2011; ©2006
    Publisher:  Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin ;New York

    Biographical note: Giselinde Kuipers, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. This book is the first extensive sociological study of the relationship between humor and social background. Using a combination of interview materials, survey... more

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    Biographical note: Giselinde Kuipers, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. This book is the first extensive sociological study of the relationship between humor and social background. Using a combination of interview materials, survey data, and historical materials, it explores the relationship between humor and gender, age, social class, and national differences in the Netherlands and the United States. The exploration of social differences in sense of humor starts off from one specific, and not very prestigious, humorous genre: the joke. Good Humor, Bad Taste explains why jokes are good humor to some, bad taste to others. Review text: "[...] Good Humor, Bad Tast is an important book"Elliott Oring in: Journal of American Folklore 2009 "This is an insightful and very clearly espressed study of an important social phenomenon ?humor. Besides, it contains, if I may say so without losing cast in Batavia, some very funny jokes."Christie Davies in: American Journal of Sociology 2008 "[...] this is a valuable and insightful contribution to the scholarship on jokes and humor that opens up many possibilities for future research."Moira Smith in: Journal of Folklore Research 2/2008

     

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    ISBN: 9783110898996
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    Series: Humor research ; 7
    Humor Research [HR] ; 7
    Subjects: Dutch wit and humor; Wit and humor; Dutch wit and humor; Wit and humor; Niederlande; Witz; USA; Humor; HUMOR / Form / Jokes & Riddles
    Other subjects: Humor; jokes; sociolinguistics; sociology
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  9. Good Humor, Bad Taste
    A Sociology of the Joke
    Published: [2011]; ©2006
    Publisher:  De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin ; Boston

    Good Humor, Bad Taste is the first extensive sociological study of the relationship between humor and social background. Using a combination of interview materials, survey data, and historical materials, the book explores the relationship between... more

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    Good Humor, Bad Taste is the first extensive sociological study of the relationship between humor and social background. Using a combination of interview materials, survey data, and historical materials, the book explores the relationship between humor and gender, age, regional background, and especially, humor and social class in the Netherlands. The final chapter focuses on national differences, exploring the differences between the American and the Dutch sense of humor, again using a combination of interview and survey materials. The starting point for this exploration of differences in sense of humor is one specific humorous genre: the joke. The joke is not a very prestigious genre; in the Netherlands even less so than in the US. It is precisely this lack of status that made it a good starting point for asking questions about humor and taste. Interviewees generally had very pronounced opinions about the genre, calling jokes "their favorite kind humor", but also "completely devoid of humor" and "a form of intellectual poverty". Good Humor, Bad Taste attempts to explain why jokes are good humor to some, bad taste to others. The focus on this one genre enables Good Humor, Bad Taste to have a very wide scope. The book not only covers the appreciation and evaluation of jokes by different social groups and in different cultures, and its relationship with wider humor styles. It also describes the genre itself: the history of the genre, its decline in status from the sixteenth century onward, and the way the topics and the tone of jokes have changed over the last fifty years of the twentieth century

     

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    ISBN: 9783110898996
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    Series: Humor Research [HR] ; 7
    Other subjects: Dutch wit and humor / History and criticism; Wit and humor / Social aspects; Humor; Soziologie; Sprachsoziologie; Witz; humor; jokes; sociolinguistics; sociology; HUMOR / Form / Jokes & Riddles
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  10. Good Humor, Bad Taste
    A Sociology of the Joke
    Published: 2011; ©2006
    Publisher:  Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin ;New York

    Biographical note: Giselinde Kuipers, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. This book is the first extensive sociological study of the relationship between humor and social background. Using a combination of interview materials, survey... more

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    Biographical note: Giselinde Kuipers, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. This book is the first extensive sociological study of the relationship between humor and social background. Using a combination of interview materials, survey data, and historical materials, it explores the relationship between humor and gender, age, social class, and national differences in the Netherlands and the United States. The exploration of social differences in sense of humor starts off from one specific, and not very prestigious, humorous genre: the joke. Good Humor, Bad Taste explains why jokes are good humor to some, bad taste to others. Review text: "[...] Good Humor, Bad Tast is an important book"Elliott Oring in: Journal of American Folklore 2009 "This is an insightful and very clearly espressed study of an important social phenomenon ?humor. Besides, it contains, if I may say so without losing cast in Batavia, some very funny jokes."Christie Davies in: American Journal of Sociology 2008 "[...] this is a valuable and insightful contribution to the scholarship on jokes and humor that opens up many possibilities for future research."Moira Smith in: Journal of Folklore Research 2/2008

     

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    Subjects: Dutch wit and humor; Wit and humor; Dutch wit and humor; Wit and humor; Niederlande; Witz; USA; Humor; HUMOR / Form / Jokes & Riddles
    Other subjects: Humor; jokes; sociolinguistics; sociology
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  11. Good Humor, Bad Taste
    A Sociology of the Joke
    Published: [2011]; ©2006
    Publisher:  De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin ; Boston

    Good Humor, Bad Taste is the first extensive sociological study of the relationship between humor and social background. Using a combination of interview materials, survey data, and historical materials, the book explores the relationship between... more

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    Good Humor, Bad Taste is the first extensive sociological study of the relationship between humor and social background. Using a combination of interview materials, survey data, and historical materials, the book explores the relationship between humor and gender, age, regional background, and especially, humor and social class in the Netherlands. The final chapter focuses on national differences, exploring the differences between the American and the Dutch sense of humor, again using a combination of interview and survey materials. The starting point for this exploration of differences in sense of humor is one specific humorous genre: the joke. The joke is not a very prestigious genre; in the Netherlands even less so than in the US. It is precisely this lack of status that made it a good starting point for asking questions about humor and taste. Interviewees generally had very pronounced opinions about the genre, calling jokes "their favorite kind humor", but also "completely devoid of humor" and "a form of intellectual poverty". Good Humor, Bad Taste attempts to explain why jokes are good humor to some, bad taste to others. The focus on this one genre enables Good Humor, Bad Taste to have a very wide scope. The book not only covers the appreciation and evaluation of jokes by different social groups and in different cultures, and its relationship with wider humor styles. It also describes the genre itself: the history of the genre, its decline in status from the sixteenth century onward, and the way the topics and the tone of jokes have changed over the last fifty years of the twentieth century

     

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    ISBN: 9783110898996
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    Series: Humor Research [HR] ; 7
    Subjects: Dutch wit and humor / History and criticism; Wit and humor / Social aspects; Humor; Soziologie; Sprachsoziologie; Witz; humor; jokes; sociolinguistics; sociology; HUMOR / Form / Jokes & Riddles
    Scope: 1 online resource (301 p.)