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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: On humor. Durham : Duke University Press, c1992 (OCoLC)645810631 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Louis J Budd; Edwin Harrison Cady |
| ISBN: | 0822311739 9780822311737 |
| OCLC Number: | 23766361 |
| Notes: | Articles selected from the journal American literature. |
| Description: | x, 276 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Burlesques in nineteenth-century American humor (1930) ; The popularity of nineteenth-century American humorists (1931) / Walter Blair -- "The gentleman from Pike" in early California (1936) / G.R. MacMinn -- Tragedy and irony in Knickerbocker's History (1940) / Charlton G. Laird -- Hank Monk and Horace Greeley (1942) / Richard G. Lillard -- The humorous works of George W. Harris (1943) / Donald Day -- Myth and humor in the Uncle Remus fables (1948) / Louise Dauner. The birth and death of a satirist: Eugene Field and Chicago's growing pains (1951) / Robert A. Day -- "Mr. Spirit" and The big bear of Arkansas (1955) / Eugene Current-Garcia -- The imagery of George Washington Harris (1959) / Milton Rickels -- The meaning of Ring Lardner's fiction (1960) / Howard W. Webb, Jr. -- Aeolism in Knickerbocker's A history of New York (1970) / David Durant -- The text, tradition, and themes of "the big bear of Arkansas" (1975) / J.A. Leo Lemay -- Tall tale, tall talk: pursuing the lie in Jacksonian literature (1977) / Neil Schmitz. Cable's The grandissimes and the comedy of manners (1980) / Robert O. Stephens -- The comic voice in Dreiser's Cowperwood narrative (1981) / Jack E. Wallace -- Colonel Noland of the Spirit: the voices of a gentleman in southwest humor (1981) / Lorne Fienberg -- From whom the bull flows: Hemingway in parody (1989) / James C. McKelly. |
| Series Title: | Best from American literature. |
| Other Titles: | American literature. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Louis J. Budd and Edwin H. Cady. |
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