Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 271 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781453917817
Series Statement:
Mass Communication and Journalism 20
Content:
Charles Dickens, celebrated novelist and journalist, believed that his greatest ability as a writer was to make people laugh. Yet, to date, humor has been strangely marginalized in journalism, communication and media studies
Content:
Contents: David Swick/Richard Lance Keeble: Journalism - So Often Funnier than Fiction – Nicholas Brownlees: News Mockery in the English Civil War and Interregnum Press – Dean Jobb: «Written with Powers Truly Comick»: Joseph Addison, Richard Steele and the Birth of Social and Political Satire – Ben Stubbs: Travel Writing and Humor: From Dickens and Twain to the Present Day – Mary M. Cronin: Sifting Comic Wheat from Western Chaff: Alex E. Sweet, John Armoy Knox, and the Humor
Content:
«Although at times one yearns for a few more jokes to leaven the analysis, this is serious and useful survey of the uses of humour in journalism.»
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781454189435
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781433130991
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781454189428
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The funniest pages New York : Peter Lang, 2016 ISBN 9781433130991
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Journalismus
;
Humor
;
Satire
DOI:
10.3726/978-1-4539-1781-7
URL:
https://www.peterlang.com/search?searchstring=9781453917817
Author information:
Keeble, Richard 1948-
Author information:
Swick, David
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