| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 161 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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? |
| Analysis |
Humour in English American writers, to 1977 - Critical studies |
| Notes |
Some essays previously published in the American quarterly, spring 1985, v. 37, no. 1 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
American wit and humor -- History and criticism
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American literature.
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HUMOR -- General.
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American literature
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American wit and humor
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dudden, Arthur Power, 1921-2009
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| LC no. |
86012869 |
| ISBN |
1429400951 |
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9781429400954 |
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1601296169 |
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9781601296160 |
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9780195042122 |
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0195042123 |
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1280449640 |
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9781280449642 |
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1280439599 |
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9781280439599 |
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0195364678 |
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9780195364675 |
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