Humor Studies
Humor Studies Categories: Humor Studies
Humor Studies Series: Humor in Life and Letters Series
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Critical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales
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Understanding Humor in Japan
Edited 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.
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Performing Marginality
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Writing Humor
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Laughing Feminism
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Critical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales The first systematic approach to the parallels between fairy-tale retellings and fairy-tale theory. |
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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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Work Hard and You Shall Be Rewarded Anyone who has ever filled in a form in triplicate, taken an aptitude test, or been rebuffed by a form letter will appreciate the urban folklore found in this collection. |
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Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing documents the thriving folklore tradition that circulates in the workplace. |
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Jewish Wry Jewish Wry examines the development of Jewish humor in a series of essays on W2topics that range from Sholom Aleichem's humor to Jewish comediennes through to the humor of Philip Roth. |
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When You’re Up to Your Ass in Alligators Office copier folklore that regularly circulate in office buildings everywhere—is the subject of this innovative study. |
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