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Theory. Humour / H.W. Fowler --
from Poetics / Aristotle --
from Author's preface to Joseph Andrews / Henry Fielding --
from The difficulty of defining comedy / Samuel Johnson --
from A comparison between laughing and sentimental comedy / Oliver Goldsmith --
from On wit and humour / William Hazlitt --
from On simple and sentimental poetry / Friedrich Schiller --
from On the essence of laughter / Charles Baudelaire --
from The expression of the emotions in man and animals / Charles Darwin --
from An essay on comedy and the uses of the comic spirit / George Meredith --
from Meredith on comedy / Bernard Shaw --
from Laughter / Henri Bergson --
from Laughter / Max Beerbohm --
from Wit and its relation to the unconscious / Sigmund Freud --
from Feeling and form / Susanne K. Langer --
from Anatomy of criticism / Northrop Frye --
from Verbal behavior / B.F. Skinner --
from Introduction to Joseph Andrews / Maynard Mack --
Some remarks on humor / E.B. White --
from Notes on the comic / W.H. Auden --
from The thread of laughter / Louis Kronenberger. Essays, narratives and verse. My financial career / Stephen Leacock --
On riding / Cornelia Otis Skinner --
Showing off / Rose Macaulay --
Dr. Arbuthnot's academy / Frank Sullivan --
You were perfectly fine / Dorothy Parker --
The catbird seat / James Thurber --
Laura / Saki [H.H. Munro] --
Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty --
A reasonable facsimile / Jean Stafford --
A voyage to the country of the Houyhnhnms / Jonathan Swift --
The rape of the lock / Alexander Pope --
The cock and the fox [The nun's priest's tale] / Geoffrey Chaucer --
The frogs asked for a king / Jean de La Fontaine --
Ode on the death of a favourite cat, drowned in a tub of gold fishes / Thomas Gray --
The Lemmings : a philosophical poem / Donald A. Stauffer --
Departmental or, The end of my ant Jerry / Robert Frost --
mehitabel dances with boreas / Don Marquis --
Macavity : the mystery cat / T.S. Eliot --
A wooden darning egg / John Updike --
The mad gardener's song / Lewis Carrol [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] --
The flea / John Donne --
Under which lyre : a reactionary tract for the times / W.H. Auden. |
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