| Description |
339 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 324-336. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Variety of humors / Sarah Blacher Cohen -- Toward a definition of Black humor / Max F. Schulz -- Nabokov's black (hole) humor: Lolita and Pale fire / Richard Pearce -- Berger and Barth: the comedy of decomposition / Stanley Trachtenberg -- Take-off the cosmic irony: science-fiction humor and the absurd / David Ketterer -- Detached laughter in the South / C. Hugh Holman -- Cosmic modes in Black America ( a ramble through Afro-American humor) / Charles H. Nichols -- Saul Bellow's humane comedy / Allen Guttmann -- Comic anatomy of Portnoy's complaint / Sheldon Grebstein -- Jewish literary comediennes / Sarah Blacher Cohen -- Satire and moral vision of Mary McCarthy / Wendy Martin -- Ladies in Boston Have their hats on: notes on WASP humor / George Garrett -- College humor and the modern audience / Earl Rovit -- Urban tall tale: frontier humor in a contemporary key / Sanford Pinsker -- Prolegomena to the study of fictional Dreck / Philip Stevick -- Camp, cruelty, colloquialism / Ruby Cohn -- Fresh air: humor in contemporary American poetry / John Vernon -- Contemporary American humor: a selected checklist of criticism. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
American wit and humor -- History and criticism.
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American wit and humor. |
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Comic, The, in literature.
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Comic, The, in literature. |
| Added Author |
Cohen, Sarah Blacher.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Comic relief. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1978 (OCoLC)561678059 |
| ISBN |
0252005767 : $14.00 |
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9780252005763 |
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