American humor /

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?

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dudden, Arthur Power, 1921-2009
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.
Temas:
American wit and humor > History and criticism.
American literature.
Humour américain > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine.
HUMOR > General.
American wit and humor.
Humour in English > American writers, to 1977 - Critical studies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : American humor / Arthur Power Dudden
  • English satire and Connecticut wit / Peter M. Briggs
  • The importance of Mark Twain / Alan Gribben
  • The record of political humor / Arthur Power Dudden
  • What's so funny about the comics? / M. Thomas Inge
  • Standup comedy as social and cultural mediations / Lawrence E. Mintz
  • Ethnic humor : subversion and survival / Joseph Boskin and Joseph Dorinson
  • Humor and gender roles : the funny feminism of the post-World War Two suburbs / Nancy Walker
  • Richard Nixon as a comic figure / Stephen J. Whitfield.

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