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Humor Studies
Humor in Life and Letters Series
Humor Studies Series: Humor in Life and Letters Series
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Understanding Humor in JapanEdited by Jessica Milner Davis A comprehensive look at the customary differences between humor in Japan and the West, providing cultural examples and illustrative terminology in the original Japanese. Price: $29.95s (Paper) | |||
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Performing Marginality
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Writing Humor
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Laughing Feminism
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Humor in BorgesBy Rene de Costa In response to this humor, Borges created a comedic tradition all his own. Price: $28.95s (Cloth) | |||
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Understanding Humor in Japan A comprehensive look at the customary differences between humor in Japan and the West, providing cultural examples and illustrative terminology in the original Japanese. |
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Performing Marginality A rhetorical analysis of female stand-up comics that explores the relationships among humor, gender, and power in contemporary culture. |
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Writing Humor Learn how to expand the humor in your imagination into the most fulfilling and fun-filled genres in creative writing—from comedy to a satirical essay to a joke monologue—with the help of Writing Humor, the first textbook of its kind for college students. |
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Laughing Feminism Laughing Feminism focuses on comedy in the works of Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen, authors who scrutinized the subjected prejudices against women in order to expose their absurdity and encourage readers to laugh at the folly of sexist v |
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Humor in Borges In response to this humor, Borges created a comedic tradition all his own. |
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Taking Penguins to the Movies As ethnic conflicts have become hot political issues, Russian jokes about ethnic groups have become more common and ethnic humor even more prevalent than political humor. |
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Tilting at Mortality Unlike other studies of Joseph Heller, which focus on his two primary works, Catch-22 and Something Happened, this volume considers Heller's entire career and examines each of his novels on its own terms, including Heller's latest work, Closing Time. |
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The Humor Prism in 20th Century American Society The Humor Prism in Twentieth-Century America explores to what extent and in what ways American humor in the twentieth century reflects history, examining the dynamics and disguised messages behind humor. |
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The Comedian as Confidence Man In this lively and fascinating analysis of humorists and their work, Will Kaufman breaks new ground with his irony fatigue theory. |
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The Ironic Temper and the Comic Imagination The Ironic Temper and the Comic Imagination examines and illuminates the role which the ironic temper plays in the creation of complex literary comedy. |
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