Humor in America: A Research Guide to Genres and Topics

Bys: Nancy Pogel and Paul P. Somers, M. Thomas Inge, David E. E. Sloane, et al.

Book Overview

This comprehensive survey of sources and scholarship should prove invaluable to anyone organizing a course in American humor, and to graduate students or advanced undergraduates as well. There are excellent summaries of respected histories of the field and such serious, well-planned chapters as The Comics, ' Humor in Periodicals, ' Standup Comedy, ' Women's Humor, ' Racial and Ethnic Humor, ' and Political Humor.' . . . Well-written and clearly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313245517
• ISBN13: 9780313245510
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"