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Author : David B. Kesterson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) by David B. Kesterson written by David B. Kesterson and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David B. Kesterson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Josh Billings written by David B. Kesterson and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David B. Kesterson
Publisher : Twayne Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) written by David B. Kesterson and published by Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1973 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds and proves that she is a real princess.
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Author : Jody C. Baumgartner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440854866
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book American Political Humor [2 volumes] written by Jody C. Baumgartner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set surveys the profound impact of political humor and satire on American culture and politics over the years, paying special attention to the explosion of political humor in today's wide-ranging and turbulent media environment. Historically, there has been a tendency to regard political satire and humor as a sideshow to the wider world of American politics—entertaining and sometimes insightful, but ultimately only of modest interest to students and others surveying the trajectory of American politics and culture. This set documents just how mistaken that assumption is. By examining political humor and satire throughout US history, these volumes not only illustrate how expressions of political satire and humor reflect changes in American attitudes about presidents, parties, and issues but also how satirists, comedians, cartoonists, and filmmakers have helped to shape popular attitudes about landmark historical events, major American institutions and movements, and the nation's political leaders and cultural giants. Finally, this work examines how today's brand of political humor may be more influential than ever before in shaping American attitudes about the nation in which we live.
Author : Manly, Inc.
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438140770
Total Pages : 4512 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Literature written by Manly, Inc. and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 4512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Clair Imbarrato, Carol Berkin, Brett Barney, Lisa Paddock, Matthew J. Bruccoli, George Parker Anderson, Judith S.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520906082
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 3 written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-07-28 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Don't scold me, Livy—let me pay my due homage to your worth; let me honor you above all women; let me love you with a love that knows no doubt, no question—for you are my world, my life, my pride, my all of earth that is worth the having." These are the words of Samuel Clemens in love. Playful and reverential, jubilant and despondent, they are filled with tributes to his fiancée Olivia Langdon and with promises faithfully kept during a thirty-four-year marriage. The 188 superbly edited letters gathered here show Samuel Clemens having few idle moments in 1869. When he was not relentlessly "banged about from town to town" on the lecture circuit or busily revising The Innocents Abroad, the book that would make his reputation, he was writing impassioned letters to Olivia. These letters, the longest he ever wrote, make up the bulk of his correspondence for the year and are filled with his acute wit and dazzling language. This latest volume of Mark Twain's Letters captures Clemens on the verge of becoming the celebrity and family man he craved to be. This volume has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and by a major donation to the Friends of The Bancroft Library from the Pareto Fund.
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Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520917294
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 4 written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You ought to see Livy & me, now-a-days—you never saw such a serenely satisfied couple of doves in all your life. I spent Jan 1, 2, 3 & 5 there, & left at 8 last night. With my vile temper & variable moods, it seems an incomprehensible miracle that we two have been right together in the same house half the time for a year & a half, & yet have never had a cross word, or a lover's 'tiff,' or a pouting spell, or a misunderstanding, or the faintest shadow of a jealous suspicion. Now isn't that absolutely wonderful? Could I have had such an experience with any other girl on earth? I am perfectly certain I could not. . . . We are to be married on Feb. 2d." So begins Volume 4 of the letters, with Samuel Clemens anticipating his wedding to Olivia L. Langdon. The 338 letters in this volume document the first two years of a loving marriage that would last more than thirty years. They recount, in Clemens's own inimitable voice, a tumultuous time: a growing international fame, the birth of a sickly first child, and the near-fatal illness of his wife. At the beginning of 1870, fresh from the success of The Innocents Abroad, Clemens is on "the long agony" of a lecture tour and planning to settle in Buffalo as editor of the Express. By the end of 1871, he has moved to Hartford and is again on tour, anticipating the publication of Roughing It and the birth of his second child. The intervening letters show Clemens bursting with literary ideas, business schemes, and inventions, and they show him erupting with frustration, anger, and grief, but more often with dazzling humor and surprising self-revelation. In addition to Roughing It, Clemens wrote some enduringly popular short pieces during this period, but he saved some of his best writing for private letters, many of which are published here for the first time.
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Total Pages : 340 pages
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Download or read book Studies in American Humor written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Wickberg
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801454387
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Senses of Humor written by Daniel Wickberg and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do modern Americans believe in something called a sense of humor, and how did they come to that belief? Daniel Wickberg traces the relatively short cultural history of the concept to its British origins as a way to explore new conceptions of the self and social order in modern America. More than simply the history of an idea, Wickberg's study provides new insights into a peculiarly modern cultural sensibility. The expression "sense of humor" was first coined in the 1840s, and the idea that such a sense was a personality trait to be valued developed only in the 1870s. What is the relationship between medieval humoral medicine and this distinctively modern idea of the sense of humor? What has it meant in the past 125 years to declare that someone lacks a sense of humor? Why do modern Americans say it is a good thing not to take oneself seriously? How is the joke, as a twentieth-century quasi-literary form, different from the traditional folktale? Wickberg addresses these questions among others and in the process uses the history of ideas to throw new light on the way contemporary Americans think and speak about humor and laughter. The context of Wickberg's analysis is Anglo-American; the specifically British meanings of humor and laughter from the sixteenth century forward provide the framework for understanding American cultural values in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The genealogy of the sense of humor is, like the study of keywords, an avenue into a significant aspect of the cultural history of modernity. Drawing on a wide range of sources and disciplinary perspectives, Wickberg's analysis challenges many of the prevailing views of modern American culture and suggests a new model for cultural historians.
Author : Josh Billings
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385525934
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book The complete works of Josh Billings, (Henry W. Shaw), with One Hundred Illustations written by Josh Billings and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-24 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Author : Ken Jennings
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501100610
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Planet Funny written by Ken Jennings and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A KirkusReviews Best Book of the Year The witty and exuberant New York Times bestselling author and record-setting Jeopardy! championKen Jennings relays the history of humor in “lively, insightful, and crawling with goofy factlings,” (Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go Bernadette)—from fart jokes on clay Sumerian tablets to the latest Twitter gags and Facebook memes. Where once society’s most coveted trait might have been strength or intelligence or honor, today, in a clear sign of evolution sliding off the trails, it is being funny. Yes, funniness. Consider: Super Bowl commercials don’t try to sell you anymore; they try to make you laugh. Airline safety tutorials—those terrifying laminated cards about the possibilities of fire, explosion, depressurization, and drowning—have been replaced by joke-filled videos with multimillion-dollar budgets and dance routines. Thanks to social media, we now have a whole Twitterverse of amateur comedians riffing around the world at all hours of the day—and many of them even get popular enough online to go pro and take over TV. In his “smartly structured, soundly argued, and yes—pretty darn funny” (Booklist, starred review) Planet Funny, Ken Jennings explores this brave new comedic world and what it means—or doesn’t—to be funny in it now. Tracing the evolution of humor from the caveman days to the bawdy middle-class antics of Chaucer to Monty Python’s game-changing silliness to the fast-paced meta-humor of The Simpsons, Jennings explains how we built our humor-saturated modern age, where lots of us get our news from comedy shows and a comic figure can even be elected President of the United States purely on showmanship. “Fascinating, entertaining and—I’m being dead serious here—important” (A.J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically), Planet Funny is a full taxonomy of what spawned and defines the modern sense of humor.
Author : James T. Callow
Publisher : Barnes & Noble
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Guide to American Literature from Emily Dickinson to the Present written by James T. Callow and published by Barnes & Noble. This book was released on 1977 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1262 pages
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Author : David B. Parker
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820334502
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Alias Bill Arp written by David B. Parker and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1861 to 1903 humorist Charles Henry Smith, writing as Bill Arp, a sly Georgia back-woodsman, was the South's most widely read newspaper columnist. Knowing the immense popularity of Smith's writings historian have suggested that southerners saw him as a voice for their concerns. While the idea that Bill Arp spoke for his region is sound, the intent of the writings has been misconstrued over time, argues David Parker. In Alias Bill Arp, Parker shows that Smith was not a contented observer of the post-Reconstruction New South as is widely inferred from his most widely read work--his syndicated weekly column in the Atlanta Constitution that he began writing in 1878. Considering the full range of Smith's work, Parker says, shows him to be one of the South's harshest critics. After a brief survey of Smith's life, Parker surveys the Bull Arp writings, highlighting their major topics, and explaining what they meant to readers of that era.
Author : Henry Wheeler Shaw
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752334134
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)
Download or read book Josh Billings On Ice and Other Things written by Henry Wheeler Shaw and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Josh Billings On Ice and Other Things by Henry Wheeler Shaw
Author : William Bedford Clark
Publisher : Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Critical Essays on American Humor written by William Bedford Clark and published by Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall. This book was released on 1984 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains 16 reprinted and seven original essays. James Cox considers the vigor of American humor as an outgrowth of the nation's optimistic expansionist energies and a reflection of its political liberty and relative material prosperity, W.P. Trent discusses the principal figures and movements in the development of American humor through the 19th century, Jennette Tandy traces the development of the unlettered philosopher as a characteristic type, and Constance Rourke couples the native American comic impulse with the national character. Other essays include: Louis Budd on the humorists of the old South, Arlin Turner on realism and fantasy in Southern humor, Jesse Bier on the rise and fall of American humor, Milton Rickels on humor of the Old Southwest, Robert Micklus on colonial humor, Emily Toth on women's humor, and Hamlin Hill's postscript on the future of American humor. ISBN 0-8161-8684-7 : $35.00.
