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Essays on American Humor
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Walter Blair
Categories: Humor
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

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Walter Blair was the literary scholar who almost single-handedly gave the study of American humor significance in the academic world. By categorizing the writin
American Humor
Language: en
Pages: 284
Authors: Constance Rourke
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-02-29 - Publisher: New York Review of Books

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Stepping out of the darkness, the American emerges upon the stage of history as a new character, as puzzling to himself as to others. American Humor, Constance
Maeve in America
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: Maeve Higgins
Categories: Humor
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-07 - Publisher: Penguin

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“If Tina Fey and David Sedaris had a daughter, she would be Maeve Higgins.” —Glamour A startlingly hilarious essay collection about one woman’s messy pa
Seeing MAD
Language: en
Pages: 621
Authors: Judith Yaross Lee
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-16 - Publisher: University of Missouri Press

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“Seeing Mad” is an illustrated volume of scholarly essays about the popular and influential humor magazine Mad, with topics ranging across its 65-year histo
Untamed and Unabashed
Language: en
Pages: 204
Authors: Regina Barreca
Categories: Humor
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Wayne State University Press

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In Untamed and Unabashed, Regina Barreca, noted authority on women and humor, examines the use of humor in the works of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George El