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Author : Constance Mayfield ROURKE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)
Download or read book American Humor. A Study of the National Character. (Second Printing.). written by Constance Mayfield ROURKE and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Constance Rourke
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590170793
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (77 download)
Download or read book American Humor written by Constance Rourke and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2004-02-29 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Rourke's pioneering "study of the national character," singles out the archetypal figures of the Yankee peddler, the backwoodsman, and the blackface minstrel to illuminate the fundamental role of popular culture in fashioning a distinctive American sensibility. A memorable performance in its own right, American Humor crackles with the jibes and jokes of generations while presenting a striking picture of a vagabond nation in perpetual self-pursuit. Davy Crockett and Henry James, Jim Crow and Emily Dickinson rub shoulders in a work that inspired such later critics as Pauline Kael and Lester Bangs and which still has much to say about the America of Bob Dylan and Thomas Pynchon, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
Author : Constance Pourke
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (819 download)
Download or read book American Humor written by Constance Pourke and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Constance M. Rourke
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)
Download or read book AMERICAN HUMOR. A STUDY OF THE NATIONAL CHARACTER. BY CONSTANCE ROURKE. written by Constance M. Rourke and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. Rourke
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (841 download)
Download or read book American Humor written by C. Rourke and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Constance Rourke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (263 download)
Download or read book American Humor written by Constance Rourke and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Winifred Morgan
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874133073
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (33 download)
Download or read book An American Icon written by Winifred Morgan and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The top hat and stars and stripes that characterize Uncle Sam today were first worn by Yankee actors portraying Brother Jonathan. This book explores the complex emblematic function of the Brother Jonathan figure and its changing meaning through the decades and in a multitude of popular media.
Author : C. Rourke
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)
Download or read book American humour written by C. Rourke and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Constance Rourke
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (185 download)
Download or read book American Humour written by Constance Rourke and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven E. Kagel
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879721718
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (217 download)
Download or read book America written by Steven E. Kagel and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1979-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel gets us from one place to another--often with wonderful attendant enjoyment-but exploration makes us understand our travel, the places we travel to--and ourselves. The essays in this collection constitute a major step toward this understanding. They open up new areas for concern and draw many valuable insights and conclusions.
Author : Kenneth Lincoln
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195361652
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Indi'n Humor written by Kenneth Lincoln and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-05-27 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon history, psychology, folklore, linguistics, anthropology, and the arts, this book challenges "wooden Indian" stereotypes to redefine negative attitudes and humorless approaches to Native American peoples. Moving from tribal culture to interethnic literature, Lincoln covers the traditional Trickster of origin myths, historical ironies, Euroamericans "playing Indian," feminist Indian humor at home, contemporary painters and playwrights reinventing Coyote, popular mixed-blood music and Red English, and three Native American novelists, Louise Erdrich, James Welch, and N. Scott Momaday. Indi'n Humor documents and interprets the contexts of laughter among Native Americans, as they see and are seen by the rest of the world. The study comes to focus comically on the poets, visual artists, playwrights, and novelists who make up the cultural renaissance of the past twenty years.
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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266213574
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Traits of American Humor, Vol. 3 of 3 (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Traits of American Humor, Vol. 3 of 3 The farmers of the surrounding country paid a yearly visit to Augusta, and having sold their crap of the great Southern staple, and laid in their stock of winter necessaries, returned home with something of that hrly satisfaction with which the pious Mohammedan turns his face homeward from Mecca. The first step upon arriving in the city was to ray aside their copperas-coloured. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Bonnie Costello
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691202907
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Plural of Us written by Bonnie Costello and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Plural of Us is the first book to focus on the poet’s use of the first-person plural voice—poetry’s “we.” Closely exploring the work of W. H. Auden, Bonnie Costello uncovers the trove of thought and feeling carried in this small word. While lyric has long been associated with inwardness and a voice saying “I,” “we” has hardly been noticed, even though it has appeared throughout the history of poetry. Reading for this pronoun in its variety and ambiguity, Costello explores the communal function of poetry—the reasons, risks, and rewards of the first-person plural. Costello adopts a taxonomic approach to her subject, considering “we” from its most constricted to its fully unbounded forms. She also takes a historical perspective, following Auden’s interest in the full range of “the human pluralities” in a time of particular pressure for and against the collective. Costello offers new readings as she tracks his changing approach to voice in democracy. Examples from many other poets—including Walt Whitman, T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, and Wallace Stevens—arise throughout the book, and the final chapter offers a consideration of how contemporary writers find form for what George Oppen called “the meaning of being numerous.” Connecting insights to philosophy of language and to recent work in concepts of community, The Plural of Us shows how poetry raises vital questions—literary and social—about how we speak of our togetherness.
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ISBN 13 : 9781331308683
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Traits of American Humor, Vol. 1 of 3 (Classic Reprint) written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Traits of American Humor, Vol. 1 of 3 Most Europeans speak of America as they do of England, France, or Prussia, as one of the great countries of the world, but without reference to the fact that it covers a larger portion of the globe than all of them collectively. In like manner as the New England confederacy originally comprised the most enlightened and most powerful transatlantic provinces, and the inhabitants accidentally acquired the appellation of Yankees, so this term is very generally applied to all Americans, and is too often used as a national, instead of a provincial or a sectional soubriquet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Susan Davis
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252051459
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs written by Susan Davis and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collector of sexual folklore. Cataloger of erotica. Tireless social critic. Gershon Legman's singular, disreputable resume made him a counter-cultural touchstone during his forty-year exile in France. Despite his obscurity today, Legman’s prescient work and passion for the prurient laid the groundwork for our contemporary study of the forbidden.Susan G. Davis follows the life and times of the figure driven to share what he found in civilization's secret libraries. Self-taught and fiercely unaffiliated, Legman collected the risqué on street corners and in theaters and dug it out of little-known archives. If the sexual humor he uncovered often used laughter to disguise hostility and fear, he still believed it indispensable to the human experience. Davis reveals Legman in all his prickly, provocative complexity as an outrageous nonconformist thundering at a wrong-headed world while reveling in conflict, violating laws and boundaries with equal abandon, and pursuing love and improbable adventures. Through it all, he maintained a kaleidoscopic network of friends, fellow intellectuals, celebrity admirers, and like-minded obsessives.
Author : Dave Dempsey
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628952660
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Ink Trails II written by Dave Dempsey and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From authors of bodice rippers and gallant figures to hometown poetry, hearty men, and tales of American originals, the history of literature in Michigan is deep and rich. The Wolverine State has been the birthplace, home, and inspiration to a tremendous number of men and women of letters, both the well-known and the obscure. Ink Trails II tells the stories of these fascinating and diverse writers whose talent is inextricably linked to Michigan. Exploring the hidden treasures of otherwise forgotten authors while also acknowledging the Michigan-set stories of giants like Hemingway, Dave and Jack Dempsey delve into the state’s literary heritage, as robust, diverse, and inexhaustible as the natural beauty of the place that nurtured it. This second volume of “ink trails” continues to tell the story of the remarkable writers, powerful words, and sublime nature of Michigan in the same well-researched and entertaining prose as the first.
Author : Jean-Christophe Cloutier
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231550243
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Shadow Archives written by Jean-Christophe Cloutier and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recasting the history of African American literature, Shadow Archives brings to life a slew of newly discovered texts—including Claude McKay’s Amiable with Big Teeth—to tell the stories of black special collections and their struggle for institutional recognition. Jean-Christophe Cloutier offers revelatory readings of major African American writers, including McKay, Richard Wright, Ann Petry, and Ralph Ellison, and provides a nuanced view of how archival methodology, access, and the power dynamics of acquisitions shape literary history. Shadow Archives argues that the notion of the archive is crucial to our understanding of postwar African American literary history. Cloutier combines his own experiences as a researcher and archivist with a theoretically rich account of the archive to offer a pioneering study of the importance of African American authors’ archival practices and how these shaped their writing. Given the lack of institutions dedicated to the black experience, the novel became an alternative site of historical preservation, a means to ensure both individual legacy and group survival. Such archivism manifests in the work of these authors through evolving lifecycles where documents undergo repurposing, revision, insertion, falsification, transformation, and fictionalization, sometimes across decades. An innovative interdisciplinary consideration of literary papers, Shadow Archives proposes new ways for literary scholars to engage with the archive.
