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On humor

Author: Louis J Budd; Edwin Harrison Cady
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, ©1992.
Series: Best from American literature.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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On humor.
Durham : Duke University Press, c1992
(OCoLC)645810631
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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