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Academic humor / Paul Schlueter -- African-American comedians / Frank J. Miles -- African-American humor / John W. Lowe -- African film comedy / Carina Yervasi -- American drama since 1975 / Richard Brucher -- American film / Leo Charney -- American Jewish humor / James D. Bloom -- American literature in the nineteenth century / Susan Welsh -- American political cartoons and comics / Kalman Goldstein -- Animation / Kirsten Thompson -- Arthurian romance / Andrew Welsh -- Black comedy / Benjamin Nathan Schachtman -- British contemporary comedy / David Hawkes -- Canadian comedy / Gerald Lynch -- Children's humor / Kathryn Douglas -- Commedia dell' arte / Frances K. Barasch -- English comedy, elizabethan and jacobean / Naomi Conn Liebler -- English comedy, restoration and augustan / John Richetti -- English comedy, victorian / Heather L. Braun -- Farce / Norman R. Shapiro -- French contemporary comedy / Alyson Waters -- French drama in the 17th century / Philip Koch -- German comedy / Bettina Brandt -- Greek comedy / Mary C. English -- Irish comedy / James M. Cahalan -- Irony / Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen -- Italian comedy / Nina da Vinci Nichols -- Middle English comedy, andrew welsh -- Native American trickster tales / Arnold Krupat -- The philosophy of humor / Adrian Bardon -- Queer comedy / Ken Feil -- Roman comedy / Maurice Charney -- The romantic period / William Galperin -- Satire / Harry Keyishian -- Shakespeare's comedies and romances / Margaret Mikesell -- Spanish comedy / Nina Gerassi-Navarro and Raquel Medina-Banon -- Stand up comedy / Lawrence E. Mintz -- Television sitcoms / Leo Charney. |
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