Humor Prism in Twentieth-Century America (Humor in Life and Letters)

Name: Humor Prism in Twentieth-Century America (Humor in Life and Letters)
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ISBN: 9780814325971

ISBN-10: 0814325971

ISBN-13: 9780814325971

Edition: 1997

Authors: Boskin

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Why do some jokes evaporate after the telling while others are transmitted to subsequent generations? Just what property of humor allows it to touch diverse members of a culture at a given time? As a penetrating and refracting angle of history, humor illuminates the expectations and contradictions of society, its anxieties and confusions, and permits perspective into any historic moment. The Humor Prism in Twentieth-Century America explores to what extent and in what ways American humor in the twentieth century reflects history, examining the dynamics and disguised messages behind humor. The first section of this volume concentrates on patterns of humor in the twentieth century. Section two…

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List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication date: 8/31/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Preface


History and Humor



What Makes People Laugh?: Cracking the Cultural Code



The Great American Joke



Our Native Humor



Entropy and Transformation: Two Types of American Humor



American Political Humor: Touchables and Taboos



The Standup Comedian as Anthropologist: Intentional Culture Critic



The Urban Landscape



Saloons and Burlesques



The People of the Joke: On the Conceptualization of a Jewish Humor



African-American Humor: Resistance and Retaliation



Why Are These Women Laughing? The Power and Politics of Women's Humor



A Rose by Any Other Name ... The Occasional Doo-Dah Parade



The Giant and the Child: "Cruel" Humor in American Culture



The Helen Keller Joke Cycle



Racial Riddles and the Polack Joke



The J.A.P. and the J.A.M. in American Jokelore



Many Hands Make Light Work or Caught in the Act of Screwing in Light Bulbs



Those Sick Challenger Jokes



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