Writing Humor: Creativity and the Comic Mind

by Mary Ann Rishel

Book Overview

Providing both theory and praxis, this insightful and creative textbook explains how to write humor, comedy, satire, parody, nonsense, and both the literary and the joke monologue. Through its close analyses of short stories, sketches, essays, and scripts, it is a must-read for serious and not-so-serious writers of every genre. Guiding aspiring writers through the many techniques for creating humor, it illustrates and analyzes what works and what...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814329608
• ISBN13: 9780814329603
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"