UID:
almafu_9959227926102883
Format:
1 online resource (180 p.)
ISBN:
1-280-43959-9
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1-4294-0095-1
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0-19-536467-8
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1-60129-616-9
Uniform Title:
American quarterly.
Content:
Among the questions posed by this collection of essays are: What are the characteristics of American humor? How have they evolved and expressed themselves? What elements are distinctively or uniquely American?
Note:
Some essays previously published in the American quarterly, spring 1985, v. 37, no. 1.
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Contents; Introduction: American Humor; English Satire and Connecticut Wit; The Importance of Mark Twain; The Record of Political Humor; What's So Funny About the Comics?; Standup Comedy as Social and Cultural Mediation; Ethnic Humor: Subversion and Survival; Humor and Gender Roles: The Funny Feminism of the Post-World War Two Suburbs; Richard Nixon as a Comic Figure
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-504212-3
Language:
English
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