The Best American Humor, 1994
Author | : Moshe Waldoks |
Publisher | : Scribner Paper Fiction |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1994-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780020381099 |
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Author | : Moshe Waldoks |
Publisher | : Scribner Paper Fiction |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1994-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780020381099 |
Author | : Moshe Waldoks |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1994-11-15 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 0671899406 |
A collection of humorous essays, articles, short stories, excerpts, and miscellaneous writings. Includes contributions by Conan O'Brien, Douglas Coupland, and Wendy Wasserstein.
Author | : Ronald A. Berk |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2023-07-03 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1000977374 |
Professors and students seem to come from different planets (or candy bars). Barriers frequently exist that impede their communication, such as age, income and cholesterol level.Humor can break down these barriers so that professors can better connect with their students and other audiences. It can be used as a teaching tool to facilitate learning. Ron Berk describes and illustrates a wide variety of techniques that can be integrated systematically into instruction and professional presentations. For professors who consider themselves as "jocularly arthritic", this book moreover provides a special feature: it is close-captioned for the humor impaired.Berk's techniques are "the product of ten years of inadequate development, testing and research." But why take the author's words at their face value? Consider the testimonials of those who have actually attempted these methods in their own classes and presentations:'Before I tried Ron's methods in my philosophy class, I had an attendance problem. Now, no one comes to class.' -- H.I., Slot Machine U., Nevada'Applying humor to my engineering courses led me to understand the meaning of humiliation and rejection.' -- J.K., Toyota College, Kentucky
Author | : Nancy A. Walker |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780842026888 |
Critical studies attempting to define and dissect American humor have been published steadily for nearly one hundred years. However, until now, key documents from that history have never been brought together in a single volume for students and scholars. What's So Funny? Humor in American Culture, a collection of 15 essays, examines the meaning of humor and attempts to pinpoint its impact on American culture and society, while providing a historical overview of its progres-sion. Essays from Nancy Walker and Zita Dresner, Joseph Boskin and Joseph Dorinson, William Keough, Roy Blount, Jr., and others trace the development of American humor from the colonial period to the present, focusing on its relationship with ethnicity, gender, violence, and geography. An excellent reader for courses in American studies and American social and cultural history, What's So Funny? explores the traits of the American experience that have given rise to its humor.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : American wit and humor |
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Author | : Victor Raskin |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 679 |
Release | : 2008-11-06 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 3110198495 |
The book is intended to provide a definitive view of the field of humor research for both beginning and established scholars in a variety of fields who are developing an interest in humor and need to familiarize themselves with the available body of knowledge. Each chapter of the book is devoted to an important aspect of humor research or to a disciplinary approach to the field, and each is written by the leading expert or emerging scholar in that area. There are two primary motivations for the book. The positive one is to collect and summarize the impressive body of knowledge accumulated in humor research in and around Humor: The International Journal of Humor Research. The negative motivation is to prevent the embarrassment to and from the "first-timers," often established experts in their own field, who venture into humor research without any notion that there already exists a body of knowledge they need to acquire before publishing anything on the subject-unless they are in the business of reinventing the wheel and have serious doubts about its being round! The organization of the book reflects the main groups of scholars participating in the increasingly popular and high-powered humor research movement throughout the world, an 800 to 1,000-strong contingent, and growing. The chapters are organized along the same lines: History, Research Issues, Main Directions, Current Situation, Possible Future, Bibliography-and use the authors' definitive credentials not to promote an individual view, but rather to give the reader a good comprehensive and condensed view of the area.
Author | : Roy Blount |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | : 668 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9780393036954 |
A treasury of contemporary Southern humor includes more than 150 stories, sketches, essays, poems, memoirs, and song lyrics from William Faulkner, Mark Twain, Zora Neal Hurston, Dave Barry, and other contributors
Author | : Dana A. Williams |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2009-03-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1443806560 |
African American Humor, Irony, and Satire: Ishmael Reed, Satirically Speaking includes select proceedings from the annual Heart’s Day Conference, sponsored by the Department of English at Howard University. Among the collection’s many strengths is the range of essays included here. Essays on Ishmael Reed center the collection, and satirists from George Schuyler to Aaron McGruder are examined as are popular culture comedians Richard Pryor and Dave Chappelle. Thus, the collection adds broadly to the body of scholarship on traditional and non-traditional interpretations of humor, irony, and satire. What these essays also reveal is how the lens of humor, irony, and satire as a way of reading texts is especially useful in highlighting the complexity of African American life and culture. The essays also uncover crucial but no so obvious connections between African Americans and other world cultures.
Author | : |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2003-10-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0393324796 |
Comprises stories from three out-of-print collections (The News of the World; Plan B for the Middle Class; The Hotel Eden), this hefty compilation showcases Carson's works.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Heritage Capital Corporation |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781599673691 |