The comic imagination in American literature /
Based on a series of lectures prepared for the Voice of America.
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| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Based on a series of lectures prepared for the Voice of America. |
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New Brunswick, N.J.,
Rutgers University Press
[1973]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : "The great American joke" / Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
- Human comedy in early America / Louis B. Wright
- Benjamin Franklin / Lewis Leary
- The satiric mode : the early national wits / Lewis P. Simpson
- Washington Irving / Lewis Leary
- Yankee humor / Cecil D. Eby
- A comic mode of the romantic imagination : Poe, Hawthorne, Melville / Hennig Cohen
- Humor of the Old Southwest / James M. Cox
- Oliver Wendell Holmes / Lewis Leary
- The misspellers / Brom Weber
- Mark Twain : the height of humor / James M. Cox
- The minstrel mode / Blyden Jackson
- Comedy and reality in local color fiction, 1865-1900 / Arlin Turner
- Rural humor of the late nineteenth century / C. Carroll Hollis
- Henry James and the comedy of the New England conscience / George Core
- Ambrose Bierce / Jay Martin
- Humor, Chicago style / Bernard Duffey
- "If only Mencken were alive ..." / Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
- Not for the old lady in Dubuque / Gerald Weales
- Anodyne for the village virus / C. Hugh Holman
- Light Verse in America / Morris Bishop
- Cabell and Barth : our comic athletes / W.L. Godshalk
- The humor of "tobacco road: / Robert D. Jacobs
- The Harlem Renaissance / Blyden Jackson
- Faulkner's humor / Robert D. Jacob
- Eudora Welty's comic imagination / Seymour L. Gross
- Jewish humor / Allen Guttmann
- Southerners in the city : Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy / Walter Sullivan
- Black America and the mask of comedy / Richard K. Barksdale
- The mode of "black humor" / Brom Weber
- "Anti-fiction" in American humor / William Harmon
- "The barber kept on shaving" : the two perspectives of American humor / Louis D. Rubin, Jr.