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  1. Furiously funny
    comic rage in late 20th century African-American literature
    Author: Tucker, Terrence T.
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  University Press of Florida, Gainesville

    The history of African American humor is difficult to piece together. Occluded by slavery's gaps and distorted by racist stereotypes, African American humor has few extant works prior to the early twentieth century. Tucker's study focuses on comic... more

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    The history of African American humor is difficult to piece together. Occluded by slavery's gaps and distorted by racist stereotypes, African American humor has few extant works prior to the early twentieth century. Tucker's study focuses on comic rage, which he defines as an African American cultural expression that uses oral traditions to convey humor and militancy simultaneously in its confrontation of uncomfortable truths about inequalities and inconsistencies in American culture Introduction: A joke to the eye -- (Re)viewing Ellison's Invisible Man: comedy, rage, and cultural tradition in an African-American classic -- Dick Gregory, Moms Mabley, and Redd Foxx: African-American humor, stand-up comedy, and comic rage in mainstream America -- From absence to flight: comic rage in the black arts/black power movements, 1966-1976 -- Fury in the "promised land": comic rage in George C. Wolfe's The Colored Museum and Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle -- Hollywood shuffle and bamboozled: comic rage, black film, and popular culture at the end of the century -- Direct from a never scared bicentennial nigger: comic rage in Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg, and Chris Rock -- Conclusion: on being pissed off to the highest degree of pissivity

     
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  2. Cynic satire
    Author: McLuhan, Eric
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    A Menippean - Cynic - satire is a device for producing a specific kind of effect on the reader. Menippean satire is an active form, not a passive one: any work that produces the effect of a Menippean satire is a Menippean satire. It is the embodiment... more

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    A Menippean - Cynic - satire is a device for producing a specific kind of effect on the reader. Menippean satire is an active form, not a passive one: any work that produces the effect of a Menippean satire is a Menippean satire. It is the embodiment of a Cynic - of a Diogenes or a Menippus or a Lucian or a Rabelais. For centuries, it has frustrated the best efforts of critics to define it. Descriptive criteria (such as "a mixture of verse and prose") invariably fail because the form is determinedly fluid and polymorphous, and playful: it shifts its mode of attack with every change in culture

     
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    ISBN: 1443882992; 9781443882996
    Subjects: Satire; Mythology; HUMOR ; General; Mythology; Satire; History; Parodies, imitations, etc
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  3. Made-in-Canada humour
    literary, folk and popular culture
    Author: Rasporich, Beverly Jean
    Published: 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 dream of Thomas... more

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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. 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. 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.

     
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    Series: Topics in Humor Research ; Volume 3
    Subjects: Canadian wit and humor; National characteristics, Canadian; Humorists, Canadian; HUMOR ; General; Canadian wit and humor; Humorists, Canadian; National characteristics, Canadian; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Humor
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  4. Mark Twain & the Bible
    Author: Ensor, Allison
    Published: [2015], ©1969
    Publisher:  University Press of Kentucky, Lexington

    Mark Twain enthusiasts will welcome this study of the great writer's attitude toward the Bible -- and of the influence of Holy Writ upon both the man and the artist. While the theological beliefs of Twain have been well documented, Mr. Ensor's study... more

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    Mark Twain enthusiasts will welcome this study of the great writer's attitude toward the Bible -- and of the influence of Holy Writ upon both the man and the artist. While the theological beliefs of Twain have been well documented, Mr. Ensor's study is the first to consider only his familiarity with the Bible and the extensive use of it in his writings. The Bible elicited by turns pious, skeptical, comical, and even hostile reactions in Twain, but he could not ignore it. Mr. Ensor examines manifestations of these conflicting impulses from the early newspaper articles to the autobiographical dic

     
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    ISBN: 9780813162638; 0813162637
    Subjects: Christian fiction, American; Christian fiction, American; HUMOR ; General; RELIGION ; Biblical Studies ; History & Culture; Christian fiction, American; Literature; Religion; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Other subjects: Twain, Mark 1835-1910; Twain, Mark (1835-1910); Twain, Mark
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  5. Unvarnishing reality
    subversive Russian and American cold war satire
    Published: ©2011
    Publisher:  University of South Carolina Press, Columbia

    An interdisciplinary approach to understanding superpower satire The role of literature during the cold war -- The intersection of literature and politics during the cold war -- "The bind of the digital" and other oversimplified logic -- Cold war... more

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    An interdisciplinary approach to understanding superpower satire The role of literature during the cold war -- The intersection of literature and politics during the cold war -- "The bind of the digital" and other oversimplified logic -- Cold war critiques of Utopia -- Totalized distortions and fabrications -- Epilogue: there is still time.

     
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  6. At zero point
    discourse, culture, and satire in Restoration England
    Published: ©2015
    Publisher:  The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington

    At Zero Point presents an entirely new way of looking at Restoration culture, discourse, and satire. The book locates a rupture in English culture and epistemology not at the end of the eighteenth century (when it occurred in France) but at the end... more

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    At Zero Point presents an entirely new way of looking at Restoration culture, discourse, and satire. The book locates a rupture in English culture and epistemology not at the end of the eighteenth century (when it occurred in France) but at the end of the seventeenth century. Rose Zimbardo's hypothesis is based on Hans Blumenberg's concept of ""zero point""--The moment when an epistemology collapses under the weight of questions it has itself raised and simultaneously a new epistemology begins to construct itself. Zimbardo demonstrates that the Restoration marked both the collapse of the Re

     
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  7. Laughing at darkness
    postmodernism and optimism in American humour
    Published: ©2010
    Publisher:  Humanities-Ebooks, Tirril, Penrith

    Cover -- Licence and use -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Postmodernism, Humour and Jewish American Ethnic Identity -- 2 Humour and the Social Implications of Postmodernism -- 3... more

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    Cover -- Licence and use -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Postmodernism, Humour and Jewish American Ethnic Identity -- 2 Humour and the Social Implications of Postmodernism -- 3 Postmodernism, Humour and American Romanticism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- The Author -- Untitled -- Humanities-Ebooks Titles

     
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    ISBN: 9781847601872; 1847601871
    Series: Contemporary American literature
    Subjects: American wit and humor; Postmodernism (Literature); Optimism in literature; Postmodernism (Literature); American wit and humor; Postmodernism; American wit and humor; Optimism in literature; Postmodernism (Literature); HUMOR ; General; Manners and customs; Criticism, interpretation, etc
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  8. Literature, satire, and the early Stuart state
    Author: McRae, Andrew
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K

    McRae examines the relation between literature and politics at a pivotal moment in English history. Looking at documents beyond literature, he argues that the most influential and incisive political satire in this period is found in manuscript... more

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    McRae examines the relation between literature and politics at a pivotal moment in English history. Looking at documents beyond literature, he argues that the most influential and incisive political satire in this period is found in manuscript libels, scurrilous pamphlets, and a range of other material pt. I. Personal Politics -- 1. The culture of early Stuart libelling -- 2. Contesting identities: libels and the early Stuart politician -- pt. II. Public Politics -- 3. Freeing the tongue and the heart: satire and the political subject -- 4. Discourses of discrimination: political satire in the 1620s -- pt. III. The Politics of Division -- 5. Satire and sycophancy: Richard Corbett and early Stuart royalism -- 6. Stigmatizing Prynne: puritanism and politics in the 1630s -- Epilogue: early Stuart satire and the Civil War.

     
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    ISBN: 0511166222; 0511165471; 9780511166228; 9780511165474
    Subjects: English prose literature; Politics and literature; Literature and state; Satire, English; English prose literature ; Early modern; Historiography; Literature and state; Politics and literature; Satire, English; HUMOR ; General; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
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  9. Grotesque Anatomies
    Menippean Satire since the Renaissance
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne

    Grotesque Anatomies is a study of Menippean satire in English since the Renaissance. It consists of revisionist, close readings of canonical works such as Eliot's The Waste Land and Pope's Dunciad among others, and investigates how identifying them... more

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    Grotesque Anatomies is a study of Menippean satire in English since the Renaissance. It consists of revisionist, close readings of canonical works such as Eliot's The Waste Land and Pope's Dunciad among others, and investigates how identifying them as Menippean satires changes our understanding of them. The initial chapter offers a comprehensive account of the form from antiquity to the present day, identifying its bifurcated development in the shorter form (Seneca-Lucian-Julian) and the long

     
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    Subjects: Satire; Satire; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; C 1900; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; HUMOR ; General; Satire; Criticism, interpretation, etc
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  10. Revel with a cause
    liberal satire in postwar America
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    We live in a time much like the postwar era. A time of arch political conservatism and vast social conformity. A time in which our nation's leaders question and challenge the patriotism of those who oppose their policies. But before there was Jon... more

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    We live in a time much like the postwar era. A time of arch political conservatism and vast social conformity. A time in which our nation's leaders question and challenge the patriotism of those who oppose their policies. But before there was Jon Stewart, Al Franken, or Bill Maher, there were Mort Sahl, Stan Freberg, and Lenny Bruce--liberal satirists who, through their wry and scabrous comedic routines, waged war against the political ironies, contradictions, and hypocrisies of their times. Revel with a Cause is their story. Stephen Kercher here provides the first comprehensive look at the sat

     
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  11. Philosophy of nonsense
    the intuitions of Victorian nonsense literature
    Published: 1994
    Publisher:  Routledge, London

    1. The linguistics of nonsense -- 2. The pragmatics of nonsense -- 3. Nonsense and the philosophy of language -- 4. The polyphony of nonsense. Annotation Jean-Jacques Lecercle's amusing yet rigorous account of how the genre of nonsense was... more

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    1. The linguistics of nonsense -- 2. The pragmatics of nonsense -- 3. Nonsense and the philosophy of language -- 4. The polyphony of nonsense. Annotation Jean-Jacques Lecercle's amusing yet rigorous account of how the genre of nonsense was constructed, and why such writers as Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear are of enduring significance to both philosophy and linguistics

     
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    ISBN: 0203025725; 9780203025727; 0415076536; 9780415076531; 0415076528; 9780415076524
    Subjects: Nonsense literature, English; English literature; English literature; Nonsense literature, English; HUMOR ; General; English literature ; Theory, etc; Victoriaanse tijd; Nonsensliteratuur; Engels; Criticism, interpretation, etc
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  12. British satire and the politics of style, 1789-1832
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    This book breaks new ground by surveying and interpreting the hundreds of satirical poems and prose narratives published in Britain during the Romantic period. Although satire was a major genre with a wide readership, such works have been largely... more

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    This book breaks new ground by surveying and interpreting the hundreds of satirical poems and prose narratives published in Britain during the Romantic period. Although satire was a major genre with a wide readership, such works have been largely neglected by literary scholars satisfied that satire disappeared in the late eighteenth century. Paying as much attention to now-forgotten figures like John Wolcot ("Peter Pindar") and Jane Taylor as to Byron, Gary Dyer argues that contemporary political and social conflicts gave new meanings to conventions of satire inherited from classical Rome and eighteenth-century England. Situating these satires in their cultural and material context sheds light on issues such as the tactics satirists used to deflect prosecution for sedition, and the ramifications for women writers of satire's "masculine" connotations. The book includes a bibliography of more than 700 volumes containing satirical verse

     
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    Series: Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 23
    Subjects: Political satire, English; Politics and literature; Politics and literature; Romanticism; Radicalism; Politics and literature; Politics and literature; Romanticism; Radicalism; Political satire, English; Romanticism; Engels; Bellettrie; Satires; Politiek; Englisch; Satire; Politik; HUMOR ; General; Radicalism; Intellectual life; Political satire, English; Politics and government; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History; Politics and literature
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  13. Documenting eighteenth century satire
    Pope, Swift, Gay, and Arbuthnot in historical context
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle upon Tyne

    Documenting Eighteenth Century Satire provides a historicized view of Augustan satire, through detailed readings of individual works. It aims to show how these satires can be "documented" in various ways to reveal richer meanings. The book ranges... more

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    Documenting Eighteenth Century Satire provides a historicized view of Augustan satire, through detailed readings of individual works. It aims to show how these satires can be "documented" in various ways to reveal richer meanings. The book ranges across different modes of satire, in poetry, prose and drama. It covers some of the best known works of eighteenth-century British literature, including The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and The Beggar's Opera. In addition it deals Other less familiar but important texts, including Gay's Trivia, Pope's Epistle to Miss Blount, and Swift's poem on Sid TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; SHORT TITLES; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

     
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  14. Comedy and culture
    England 1820-1900
    Published: 1980
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey

    Comedy cannot be understood as an abstract critical concept, argues Roger Henkle; it 'must be studied in specific cultural and historical contexts. From this point of view he examines the development of literary comedy in nineteenth-century England,... more

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    Comedy cannot be understood as an abstract critical concept, argues Roger Henkle; it 'must be studied in specific cultural and historical contexts. From this point of view he examines the development of literary comedy in nineteenth-century England, and shows how comic modes and techniques were used to express and release the tensions of the middle class during periods of both rapid cultural change and relative stability. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905 Frontmatter --Contents --Preface --Introduction --1. 1820-1845: The Anxieties of Sublimation, and Middle-Class Myths --2. Peacock, Thackeray, and Jerrold: The Comedy of "Radical" Disaffection --3. Early Dickens: Metamorphosis, Psychic Disorientation, and the Small Fry --4. Later Dickens: Disenchantment, Transmogrification, and Ambivalence --5. Hood, Gilbert, Carroll, Jerrold, and the Grossmiths: Comedy from Inside --6. Meredith and Butler: Comedy as Lyric, High Culture, and the Bourgeois Trap --7. Wilde and Beerbohm: The Wit of the Avant-Garde, The Charm of Failure --Notes --Index.

     
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    ISBN: 9781400857920; 1400857929
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    Subjects: English literature; Middle class; Literature and society; Comic, The; Literature and society; Middle class; English literature; LITERARY CRITICISM ; Humor; HUMOR ; General; Comic, The; English literature; Literature and society; Middle class; Criticism, interpretation, etc
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  15. A manner of correspondence
    a study of the Scriblerus Club
    Published: c1997
    Publisher:  McGill-Queen's University Press, Montréal [Que.]

    "A Manner of Correspondence examines one of the most interesting of literary clubs - the Scriblerus Club - whose members were Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Parnell, and Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford. Patricia... more

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    "A Manner of Correspondence examines one of the most interesting of literary clubs - the Scriblerus Club - whose members were Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Parnell, and Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford. Patricia Bruckmann shows that the Scriblerians were bound by correspondent values, complementary talents, and a united satiric program." "Tracing their shared vision in such works as Memoirs of Scriblerus, Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, The Beggar's Opera, and The Dunciad, Bruckmann identifies the pastoral as their common ideal and analyses their shared hostilities and anxieties regarding the erosion of that ideal in an age they saw as grotesquely degenerate. She points out that in many ways the group was out of step with its own time and much more attuned to ancient and traditional images of felicity and to ancient authors who subscribed to these values. The influence of Erasmus and Sir Thomas More, who both figure as icons in the Scriblerians' work, as well as such authors as Seneca, Lucian, Lucius Apuleius, and Francois Rabelais is explored in detail." "Bruckmann highlights the Scriblerian influence on writers such as Henry Fielding, Lawrence Sterne, Vladimir Nabokov, John Barth, Robert Coover, and James Joyce, offering a place for dialogue between modern humanists and their eighteenth-century forebears."--BOOK JACKET

     
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    ISBN: 9780773566477; 0773566473
    Subjects: Satire, English; English literature; Satire anglaise; Littérature anglaise; English literature; Satire, English; Electronic books; HUMOR ; General; LITERARY CRITICISM ; European ; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature; Satire, English; Satires; Letterkunde; Engels; Scriblerus Club; Criticism, interpretation, etc
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  16. Cruelty and laughter
    forgotten comic literature and the unsentimental Eighteenth Century
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    <DIV> Eighteenth-century British culture is often seen as polite and sentimental-the creation of an emerging middle class. Simon Dickie disputes these assumptions in Cruelty and Laughter, a wildly enjoyable but shocking plunge into the forgotten... more

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    Eighteenth-century British culture is often seen as polite and sentimental-the creation of an emerging middle class. Simon Dickie disputes these assumptions in Cruelty and Laughter, a wildly enjoyable but shocking plunge into the forgotten comic literature of the age. Beneath the surface of Enlightenment civility, Dickie uncovers a rich vein of cruel humor that forces us to recognize just how slowly ordinary human sufferings became worthy of sympathy. Delving into an enormous archive of comic novels, jestbooks, farces, variety shows, and cartoons, Dickie finds a vast repository of jokes about cripples, blind men, rape, and wife-beating. Epigrams about syphilis and scurvy sit alongside one-act comedies about hunchbacks in love. He shows us that everyone-rich and poor, women as well as men-laughed along. In the process, Dickie also expands our understanding of many of the century's major authors, including Samuel Richardson, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Tobias Smollett, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen. He devotes particular attention to Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews, a novel that reflects repeatedly on the limits of compassion and the ethical problems of laughter. Cruelty and Laughter is an engaging, far-reaching study of the other side of culture in eighteenth-century Britain.

     
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    ISBN: 9780226146201; 0226146200; 1283317052; 9781283317054
    Subjects: English wit and humor; Cruelty in literature; English wit and humor; Literature; English wit and humor; Cruelty in literature; HUMOR ; General; Criticism, interpretation, etc
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  17. Book of Snobs
    By One of Themselves
    Published: 1848
    Publisher:  Floating Press, Auckland

    Satirical genius William Makepeace Thackeray may be best remembered for novels like Vanity Fair, but he first made his name as a writer as a contributor to magazines like Punch. In these pieces, Thackeray often mercilessly skewered the pretensions of... more

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    Satirical genius William Makepeace Thackeray may be best remembered for novels like Vanity Fair, but he first made his name as a writer as a contributor to magazines like Punch. In these pieces, Thackeray often mercilessly skewered the pretensions of the British upper classes. The collection Book of Snobs brings together some of Thackeray's finest work in this vein, and it's a must-read for fans of witty humor writing

     
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    Subjects: Snobs and snobbishness; Snobs and snobbishness; Fiction; Snobs and snobbishness; English; Languages & Literatures; English Literature; HUMOR ; General
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  18. Autobiography of Mark Twain
    Volume 1, Reader's Edition
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley

    The year 2010 marked the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain's death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain's works, UC Press published Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1, the first... more

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    The year 2010 marked the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain's death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain's works, UC Press published Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1, the first of a projected three-volume edition of the complete, uncensored autobiography. The book became an immediate bestseller and was hailed as the capstone of the life's work of America's favorite author.This Reader's Edition, a portable paperback in larger type, republishes the text of the hardcover Autobiography in a form that is convenient for the ge

     
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    Series: Mark Twain papers
    Subjects: Authors, American; Authors, American; English; Languages & Literatures; American Literature; Authors, American; HUMOR ; General; Biographies; LITERARY CRITICISM ; American ; General
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  19. Wit's end
    women's humor as rhetorical & performative strategy
    Published: c2010
    Publisher:  University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa

    "Like a marriage with a monkey" : an argument for the use of speech-act theory in the analysis of humor -- Subversive potential meets social resistance : women's humor in Thurber, Hurston, and Parker -- Generally unhappy : the deconstruction of... more

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    "Like a marriage with a monkey" : an argument for the use of speech-act theory in the analysis of humor -- Subversive potential meets social resistance : women's humor in Thurber, Hurston, and Parker -- Generally unhappy : the deconstruction of speech acts and Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? -- Comic relief : a stand-up performance by J.L. Austin and the consequences of not getting it -- Failure revisited and authority regained : Louise Erdrich's Love medicine -- Sisyphus's punch line : intentionality and wit as treatment for postmodern depression.

     
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  20. Shock and Awe
    American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Dartmouth

    American exceptionalism, global power, and Mark Twain more

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    American exceptionalism, global power, and Mark Twain

     
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    Series: Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies
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    Subjects: National characteristics, American, in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM ; American ; General; HUMOR ; General; National characteristics, American, in literature
    Other subjects: Twain, Mark 1835-1910; Twain, Mark (1835-1910): Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court
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  21. John Mcdonald's Maine trivia
    a storyteller's useful guide to useless information
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Islandport Press, Yarmouth, Me

    Professional storyteller John McDonald, author of the now-classic A Moose and a Lobster Walk into a Bar, offers up his unique take on Maine trivia. John delivers an educational and hilarious mix of basic and fun facts about the Pine Tree State,... more

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    Professional storyteller John McDonald, author of the now-classic A Moose and a Lobster Walk into a Bar, offers up his unique take on Maine trivia. John delivers an educational and hilarious mix of basic and fun facts about the Pine Tree State, including, of course, a few wicked funny stories. For example, did you know the first navel battle of the Revolutionary War was fought in Maine in 1775? That Maine boasts 65 Mud Ponds? That Maine Sen. Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for the U.S. Presidency at a major party's convention? Readers are sure to learn a lot about the both Pine Tree State and the United States, as well as have a few laughs in the process

     
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    Subjects: American wit and humor; HUMOR ; General; LITERARY COLLECTIONS ; Essays; American wit and humor; Humor
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  22. Playing with words
    humour in the English language
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Equinox Pub, London

    Playing with Words shows how every facet of language is exploited for humour more

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    Playing with Words shows how every facet of language is exploited for humour

     
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    Subjects: Wit and humor; Plays on words; Wit and humor; Plays on words; Plays on words; Wit and humor; HUMOR ; General; Plays on words; Wit and humor; Humor; Sprachspiel; Criticism, interpretation, etc
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  23. The senses of humor
    self and laughter in modern America
    Published: [2015]
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca

    "The expression "sense of humor" was first coined in the 1840s, and the idea that such a sense was a personality trait to be valued developed only in the 1870s. What is the relationship between medieval humoral medicine and this distinctively modern... more

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    "The expression "sense of humor" was first coined in the 1840s, and the idea that such a sense was a personality trait to be valued developed only in the 1870s. What is the relationship between medieval humoral medicine and this distinctively modern idea of the sense of humor? What has it meant in the past 125 years to declare that someone lacks a sense of humor? Why do modern Americans say it is a good thing not to take oneself seriously? How is the joke, as a twentieth-century quasi-literary form, different from the traditional folktale? Wickberg addresses these questions among others and in the process uses the history of ideas to throw new light on the way contemporary Americans think and speak about humor and laughter." "The context of Wickberg's analysis is Anglo-American; the specifically British meanings of humor and laughter from the sixteenth century forward provide the framework for understanding American cultural values in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The genealogy of the sense of humor is, like the study of keywords, an avenue into a significant aspect of the cultural history of modernity. Drawing on a wide range of sources and disciplinary perspectives, Wickberg's analysis challenges many of the prevailing views of modern American culture and suggests a new model for cultural historians."--Jacket

     
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  24. Laughing fit to kill
    black humor in the fictions of slavery
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    Introduction; 1 "Laffin' fit ter kill": Black Humor in the Fiction of William Wells Brown and Charles W. Chesnutt; 2 The Conjurer Recoils: Slavery in Richard Pryor's Performances and Chappelle's Show; 3 Conjuring the Mysteries of Slavery: Voodoo,... more

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    Introduction; 1 "Laffin' fit ter kill": Black Humor in the Fiction of William Wells Brown and Charles W. Chesnutt; 2 The Conjurer Recoils: Slavery in Richard Pryor's Performances and Chappelle's Show; 3 Conjuring the Mysteries of Slavery: Voodoo, Fetishism, and Stereotype in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada; 4 "A Comedy of the Grotesque": Robert Colescott, Kara Walker, and the Iconography of Slavery; 5 The Tragicomedy of Slavery in Suzan-Lori Parks's Early Plays; Notes; Bibliography; Index. Introduction. 1. "Laffin fit ter kill:" Black Humor in the Fiction of William Wells Brown and Charles W. Chesnutt. 2. The Conjurer Recoils: Slavery in Richard Pryor and Chappelle's Show. 3. Conjuring the Mysteries of Slavery: Voodoo, Fetishism, and Stereotype in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada. 4. "A Comedy of the Grotesque": Robert Colescott, Kara Walker and the Iconography of Slavery. 5. The Tragicomedy of Slavery in Suzan-Lori Parks' Early Plays. Notes. Bibliography. Index

     
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  25. American humor
    Published: 1987
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York

    Among the questions posed by this collection of essays are: What are the characteristics of American humor? How have they evolved and expressed themselves? What elements are distinctively or uniquely American? more

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    Among the questions posed by this collection of essays are: What are the characteristics of American humor? How have they evolved and expressed themselves? What elements are distinctively or uniquely American?

     
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    ISBN: 1601296169; 9781601296160; 9780195042122; 0195042123; 1429400951; 9781429400954
    Subjects: American wit and humor; American literature; American wit and humor; American literature; American wit and humor; Electronic books; HUMOR ; General; American literature; American wit and humor; Criticism, interpretation, etc
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    Some essays previously published in the American quarterly, spring 1985, v. 37, no. 1

    Arthur Power Dudden: Introduction : American humor

    Peter M. Briggs: English satire and Connecticut wit

    Alan Gribben: The importance of Mark Twain

    Arthur Power Dudden: The record of political humor

    M. Thomas Inge: What's so funny about the comics?

    Lawrence E. Mintz: Standup comedy as social and cultural mediations

    Joseph Boskin and Joseph Dorinson: Ethnic humor : subversion and survival

    Nancy Walker: Humor and gender roles : the funny feminism of the post-World War Two suburbs

    Stephen J. Whitfield.: Richard Nixon as a comic figure