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          Funny, You Don’t Look Funny

          Funny, You Don't Look Funny

          Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials

          by Jennifer Caplan

          Price: $36.99

          ISBN: 9780814347317

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: March 2023

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          296 Pages

          Offering ample evidence and examples along the way, Caplan guides readers through a series of phenomenological and ideological changes across generations, concluding with commentary regarding the potential influences on Jewish humor of later Millennials, Gen Z, and beyond.

          After "Happily Ever After"

          After "Happily Ever After"

          Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age

          Edited by Maria San Filippo

          Foreword by Tamar Jeffers MacDonald

          Price: $34.99

          ISBN: 9780814346747

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: May 2021

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          382 Pages

          This volume is intended for all readers with an interest in film, media, and gender studies.

          101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition

          101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition

          by Ulrich Marzolph

          Price: $49.99

          ISBN: 9780814347737

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: August 2020

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          624 Pages

          101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition is an important contribution to this debate and a vital work for scholars, students, and readers of folklore and fairy tales.

          The Comedian as Confidence Man

          The Comedian as Confidence Man

          Studies in Irony Fatigue

          by Will Kaufman

          Price: $34.99

          ISBN: 9780814346792

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: October 2019

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          272 Pages

          If these social observers are obliged to become, in effect, confidence men, with irony as the satiric weapon that both attacks and diverts, then the implications are great for those social critics who above all wish to be heeded.

          Maverick

          Maverick

          by Dennis Broe

          Price: $19.99

          ISBN: 9780814339169

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: August 2015

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          136 Pages

          Maverick fans and scholars of American television history will enjoy this close look at the classic series.

          Writing Humor

          Writing Humor

          Creativity and the Comic Mind

          by Mary Ann Rishel

          Price: $28.99

          ISBN: 9780814329603

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: April 2002

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          336 Pages

          Readers will find an inventive selection of examples to learn from, including a script from M*A*S*H and pieces by such humorists as Woody Allen, Ogden Nash, and Art Buchwald—and by students as well.

          Humor in Borges

          Humor in Borges

          by Rene De Costa

          Price: $32.99

          ISBN: 9780814328880

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: April 2000

          Format: Hardcover

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          152 Pages

          Scholars and students of twentieth-century Spanish and Latin American literature will delight in this fascinating look at laughter in the work of Jorge Luis Borges.

          Work Hard and You Shall Be Rewarded

          Work Hard and You Shall Be Rewarded

          Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire

          by Alan Dundes and Carl Pagter

          Price: $26.99

          ISBN: 9780814324325

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: December 1992

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          248 Pages

          The humor of the materials pinpoints the ills and frustrations of modern society and becomes, in turn, an escape from them.

          Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing

          Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing

          Still More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire

          by Alan Dundes and Carl Pagter

          Price: $26.99

          ISBN: 9780814323588

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: June 1991

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          436 Pages

          Dundes and Pagter clearly demonstrate the existence of folklore in the modern urban technological world and refute the notion that folklore reflects only the past.

          Jewish Wry

          Jewish Wry

          Essays on Jewish Humor

          Edited by Sarah Blacher Cohen

          Price: $26.99

          ISBN: 9780814323663

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: December 1990

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          256 Pages

          This important book offers enjoyable reading as well as a significant and scholarly contribution to the field.

          When You’re up to Your Ass in Alligators

          When You're up to Your Ass in Alligators

          More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire

          by Alan Dundes and Carl Pagter

          Price: $24.99

          ISBN: 9780814318676

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: April 1987

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          272 Pages

          Bosses, ethnic groups, minorities, the sexes, alternative lifestyles, politics, welfare, government workers, the law, bureaucracy, and even "The Night Before Christmasall come under fire to form a biting, and hilarious, commentary on modern American society.

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