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Critical Essays on American Humor

William Bedford ClarkW. Craig Turner

出版	G.K. Hall, 1984
主題	Humor / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Humor
ISBN	08161868479780816186846
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tRIzAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

This volume contains 16 reprinted and seven original essays. James Cox considers the vigor of American humor as an outgrowth of the nation's optimistic expansionist energies and a reflection of its political liberty and relative material prosperity, W.P. Trent discusses the principal figures and movements in the development of American humor through the 19th century, Jennette Tandy traces the development of the unlettered philosopher as a characteristic type, and Constance Rourke couples the native American comic impulse with the national character. Other essays include: Louis Budd on the humorists of the old South, Arlin Turner on realism and fantasy in Southern humor, Jesse Bier on the rise and fall of American humor, Milton Rickels on humor of the Old Southwest, Robert Micklus on colonial humor, Emily Toth on women's humor, and Hamlin Hill's postscript on the future of American humor. ISBN 0-8161-8684-7 : $35.00.