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<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD>Acknowledgments</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>xi</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>DAVID E. E. SLOANE</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD><TR><TD>Introduction</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>1</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(10)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Popular Culture</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>11</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(50)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>DOUGLAS SUN</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>"Change It! This Sucks!":  Beavis and Butt-head, Idiot Savants of Cultural Criticism</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>11</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(15)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>GREGG CAMFIELD</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>How MTV "Re-Butts" the Satiric Argument of Beavis and Butt-head</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>26</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(14)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Now's the Time:  The Richard Pryor Phenomenon and the Triumph of Black Culture</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>40</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(11)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>DON GRAHAM</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>The Comic Texan in Film:  A Regional Stereotype in the National Imagination</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>51</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(10)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Popular Humor in Print</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>61</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(42)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>THOMAS GRANT</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>The "Funny Republican":  P. J. O'Rourke and the Graying of Boomer Humor</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>61</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(16)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>DAVID G. LOTT</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>The Mark Twain of Baseball?:  A Proposal for Humor Research of Turn-of-the-Century American Sportswriting</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>77</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(10)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>STEVEN H. GALE</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Humor High and Low:  An Introduction</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>87</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(16)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Gender Issues</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>103</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(48)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>NANCY A. WALKER</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Talking Back to the Culture: Contemporary Women's Comic Art</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>103</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(15)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>JUDY SNELLER</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>"Old Maids" and Wily "Widders":  The Humor of Ruth McEnery Stuart</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>118</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(11)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>KAREN L. KILCUP</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>"Quite unclassifiable":  Crossing Genres, Crossing Genders in Twain and Greene</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>129</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(22)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Dimensions of Major Authors as Humorists</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>151</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(48)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>MICHELE S. WARE</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Making Fun of the Critics:  Edith Wharton's Anticipation of the Postmodern Academic Romance</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>151</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(9)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>LAWRENCE I. BERKOVE</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>The Comstock Matrix of Twain's Humor</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>160</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(11)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>LOUIS J. BUDD</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Mark Twain's Fingerprints in Pudd'nhead Wilson</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>171</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(15)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>DAVID TOMLINSON</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Eddie Didn't Do Stand-up:  Some Keys to Poe's Humor</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>186</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(13)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Foreign Language and American Humor</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>199</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(34)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>HOLGER KERSTEN</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Mark Twain and the Funny Magic of the German Language</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>199</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(11)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>JAMES R. PAPP</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Huck Finn on His Best Behavior:  The Problem of Translation</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>210</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(10)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>ALITA KELLEY</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Linguistic Affinities:  Translating Bryce Echenique's Lima Humor for Readers of English</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>220</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(13)</TD></TR><TR><TD>American Humor:  Bibliography</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>233</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(14)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>DONALD BARLOW STAUFFER</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Teaching a Text-Based Humor Course:  "You can't get there from here, stranger"</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>233</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(14)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Afterword   New Directions in American Humor:  An Afterword</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>247</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(18)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>DAVID E.E. SLOANE</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD><TR><TD>Contributors</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>265</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(4)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Index</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>269</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE>

Sampling the wide range of humor in the American cultural experience, AMERICAN HUMOR examines television, cartoons, sports and political reporting, film, and literature. AMERICAN HUMOR traces American life in social and historic context and anticipates further developments in the field.

New directions in American humor