American humor:
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 1987
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Beschreibung:Some essays previously published in the American quarterly, spring 1985, v. 37, no. 1
Includes bibliographical references
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
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?
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 161 p.)
ISBN:0195042123
1429400951
1601296169
9780195042122
9781429400954
9781601296160

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