Encyclopedia Of American Humorists

Author : Steven H. Gale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781317362272

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Encyclopedia of American Humorists by Steven H. Gale Pdf

First published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the past, treated as inferior to British literature, there has always been a large popular audience for the genre, which this book shows. The figures with entries in this encyclopedia not only amuse in their writing, but also aim to enlighten- setting out to expose the foibles and foolishness of society and the individuals who compose it. It is the manner in which these authors try to accomplish this end that determines whether they appear in the volume. Indeed, the book will demonstrate that the best humor has at its base, a ready understanding of human nature.

Author : Alleen Pace Nilsen,Don Nilsen
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-20
Category : Humor
ISBN : IND:30000064272085

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Encyclopedia of 20th-Century American Humor by Alleen Pace Nilsen,Don Nilsen Pdf

Review: "This unique encyclopedia treats the concepts, persons, themes, and media of 20th-century American humor and humor studies. More than 100 alphabetically arranged entries highlight a broad range of humor-related topics from wit, understatement, and ambiguity to late-night talk shows and the Internet."--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2001

Author : Alleen Pace Nilsen,Don Nilsen
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-20
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781573562188

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Encyclopedia of 20th-Century American Humor by Alleen Pace Nilsen,Don Nilsen Pdf

Review: "This unique encyclopedia treats the concepts, persons, themes, and media of 20th-century American humor and humor studies. More than 100 alphabetically arranged entries highlight a broad range of humor-related topics from wit, understatement, and ambiguity to late-night talk shows and the Internet."--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2001

Author : Tracy Chevalier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1884964303

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Encyclopedia of the Essay by Tracy Chevalier Pdf

A hefty one-volume reference addressing various facets of the essay. Entries are of five types: 1) considerations of different types of essay, e.g. moral, travel, autobiographical; 2) discussions of major national traditions; 3) biographical profiles of writers who have produced a significant body of work in the genre; 4) descriptions of periodicals important for their publication of essays; and 5) discussions of some especially significant single essays. Each entry includes citations for further reading and cross references. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Evan Esar
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Humor
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026068747

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The Comic Encyclopedia by Evan Esar Pdf

Here at last is the first genuine encyclopedia of comedy ever published. Its range is enormous. It explores the comedy behind history, the arts, language, literature, entertainments. And on almost every page you will find amusing items, from jokes to anecdotes, from wisecracks to gaglines. The thousand and one articles describe the performers of laughter--humorists, punsters, satirists, comedians, cartoonists. They also explain the science of comedy. The text mingles historical events and funny stories with thousands of specimens of wit and humor.--Jacket flap.

Author : James Melville Janson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005666438

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Encyclopedia of Comedy by James Melville Janson Pdf

By comedian with 20 years of experience, including work with minstrel shows.

Author : Victor Raskin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-06
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9783110198492

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The Primer of Humor Research by Victor Raskin Pdf

The book is intended to provide a definitive view of the field of humor research for both beginning and established scholars in a variety of fields who are developing an interest in humor and need to familiarize themselves with the available body of knowledge. Each chapter of the book is devoted to an important aspect of humor research or to a disciplinary approach to the field, and each is written by the leading expert or emerging scholar in that area. There are two primary motivations for the book. The positive one is to collect and summarize the impressive body of knowledge accumulated in humor research in and around Humor: The International Journal of Humor Research. The negative motivation is to prevent the embarrassment to and from the "first-timers," often established experts in their own field, who venture into humor research without any notion that there already exists a body of knowledge they need to acquire before publishing anything on the subject-unless they are in the business of reinventing the wheel and have serious doubts about its being round! The organization of the book reflects the main groups of scholars participating in the increasingly popular and high-powered humor research movement throughout the world, an 800 to 1,000-strong contingent, and growing. The chapters are organized along the same lines: History, Research Issues, Main Directions, Current Situation, Possible Future, Bibliography-and use the authors' definitive credentials not to promote an individual view, but rather to give the reader a good comprehensive and condensed view of the area.

Author : William E. Ellis
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780813173993

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Irvin S. Cobb by William E. Ellis Pdf

"Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn." -- Irvin S. Cobb Born and raised in Paducah, Kentucky, humorist Irvin S. Cobb (1876--1944) rose from humble beginnings to become one of the early twentieth century's most celebrated writers. As a staff reporter for the New York World and Saturday Evening Post, he became one of the highest-paid journalists in the United States. He also wrote short stories for noted magazines, published books, and penned scripts for the stage and screen. In Irvin S. Cobb: The Rise and Fall of a Southern Humorist, historian William E. Ellis examines the life of this significant writer. Though a consummate wordsmith and a talented observer of the comical in everyday life, Cobb was a product of the Reconstruction era and the Jim Crow South. As a party to the endemic racism of his time, he often bemoaned the North's harsh treatment of the South and stereotyped African Americans in his writings. Marred by racist undertones, Cobb's work has largely slipped into obscurity. Nevertheless, Ellis argues that Cobb's life and works are worthy of more detailed study, citing his wide-ranging contributions to media culture and his coverage of some of the biggest stories of his day, including on-the-ground reporting during World War I. A valuable resource for students of journalism, American humor, and popular culture, this illuminating biography explores Cobb's life and his influence on early twentieth-century letters.

Author : Jo A. Cates
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780313058844

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Journalism by Jo A. Cates Pdf

Journalism: A Guide to the Reference Literature is a critically annotated bibliographic guide to print and electronic sources in print and broadcast journalism. The first edition was published in 1990; the second in 1997. It has been described as one of the critical reference sources in journalism today, and it is a key bibliographic guide to the literature. Choice magazine called it a benchmark publication for which there are no comparable sources. The format is similar to the second edition. What makes this edition significantly different is the separation of Commercial Databases and Internet Resources. Commercial Databases includes standard fee-based resources. The new chapter on Internet sources features Web-based resources not included in the commercial databases chapter as well as portals, other online files, listservs, newsgroups, and Web logs/blogs. All chapters have been revised, and there are significant revisions in Directories, Yearbooks, and Collections; Miscellaneous Sources; Core Periodicals; Societies and Associations; and Research Centers and Archives. The second edition has 789 entries. The third edition contains almost 1,000 entries. James Carey of Columbia University, who provided the foreword for the first two editions, has updated his foreword for this edition.

Author : Alleen Pace Nilsen,Don L. F. Nilsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108416542

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The Language of Humor by Alleen Pace Nilsen,Don L. F. Nilsen Pdf

Explores how humor can be explained across the various sub-disciplines of linguistics, in order to aid communication.

Author : Hennig Cohen,William B. Dillingham
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0820316059

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Humor of the Old Southwest by Hennig Cohen,William B. Dillingham Pdf

One of the most entertaining genres of American literature is the bold, masculine, wildly exaggerated, and highly imaginative frontier humor of the Old Southwest, produced between 1835 and 1861 in an area that extended from Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia westward to Lousiana, Arkansas, Missouri, and Texas. Hennig Cohen and William B. Dillingham have tapped the wealth of this region to produce a collection that over the last three decades has become the standard anthology of Old Southwestern humor. This new, extensively revised edition includes an expanded introduction, a dozen replacement sections, an updated bibliography, and works by three new writers--Phillip B. January, Matthew C. Field, and John Gorman Barr. Most generously represented are George Washington Harris, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson Jones Hooper, and Thomas Bangs Thorpe. Selections from twenty-five authors are featured along with brief biographical essays that combine historical and political analysis with perceptive literary criticism. These selections document important facets of antebellum American culture and provide the background of the literary achievement of Mark Twain and William Faulkner.

Author : Edward Piacentino
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807130869

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The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor by Edward Piacentino Pdf

The Old Southwest flourished between 1830 and 1860, but its brand of humor lives on in the writings of Mark Twain, the novels of William Faulkner, the television series The Beverly Hillbillies, the material of comedian Jeff Foxworthy, and even cyberspace, where nonsoutherners can come up to speed on subjects like hickphonics. The first book on its subject, The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor engages topics ranging from folklore to feminism to the Internet as it pays tribute to a distinctly American comic style that has continued to reinvent itself. The book begins by examining frontier southern humor as manifested in works of Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, Woody Guthrie, Harry Crews, William Price Fox, Fred Chappell, Barry Hannah, Cormac McCarthy, and African American writers Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Ishmael Reed, and Yusef Komunyakaa. It then explores southwestern humor’s legacy in popular culture—including comic strips, comedians, and sitcoms—and on the Internet. Many of the trademark themes of modern and contemporary southern wit appeared in stories that circulated in the antebellum Southwest. Often taking the form of tall tales, those stories have served and continue to serve as rich, reusable material for southern writers and entertainers in the twentieth century and beyond. The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor is an innovative collaboration that delves into jokes about hunting, drinking, boasting, and gambling as it studies, among other things, the styles of comedians Andy Griffith, Dave Gardner, and Justin Wilson. It gives splendid demonstration that through the centuries southern humor has continued to be a powerful tool for disarming hypocrites and opening up sensitive issues for discussion.

Author : Ralph Francis Bennett,University of Maryland, College Park. Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies,University of Maryland Symposium: "Cross-Cultural Perspectives" (1986)
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0874134110

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Settlements in the Americas by Ralph Francis Bennett,University of Maryland, College Park. Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies,University of Maryland Symposium: "Cross-Cultural Perspectives" (1986) Pdf

Author : Rhonda S. Pettit
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838639682

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The Critical Waltz by Rhonda S. Pettit Pdf

This is the first collection of critical essays devoted to the writing of Dorothy Parker. Its four part organisation reflects a necessary shift away from her identity as primarily a humorist or Jazz Age literary celebrity.

Author : Don Lee Fred Nilsen
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1993-02-22
Category : Humor
ISBN : IND:30000037336827

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Humor Scholarship by Don Lee Fred Nilsen Pdf

The serious study of humor has burgeoned in the last two decades, spawning a wealth of publications touching upon an array of topics crossing national, cultural, and disciplinary lines. This research bibliography captures the vibrancy and significance of the field of humor studies while documenting its output. Organized into ten broad chapters reflecting types of humor and topics of humor research, it provides extensive bibliographies on forty-five fields of humor study, each introduced by an essay outlining trends and pointing to major findings. An appendix of humor research institutes, journals, scholars and academic programs as well as a subject and author index to the thousands of sources complete the volume. Intended largely for library use by scholars and students in humor studies, the volume's topical essays are valuable for text use in related courses; the work's extensive bibliographies will foster research in diverse fields with a focus on humor.