Author: Irvin Shrewsbury CobbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Stickfuls (myself--to Date).
Author: Irvin Shrewsbury CobbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Works of Irvin S. Cobb...: Stickfuls
Author: Irvin Shrewsbury CobbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Irvin S. Cobb
Author: William E. EllisPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813174007
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This biography of a little-remembered Southern humorist “delivers on its claim that Cobb’s life is emblematic of changes that registered on a larger scale” (Journal of Southern History). “Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.” ?Irvin S. Cobb Born and raised in Paducah, Kentucky, humorist Irvin S. Cobb (1876–1944) rose from humble beginnings to become one of the early twentieth century’s most celebrated writers. As a staff reporter for the New York World and Saturday Evening Post, he became one of the highest-paid journalists in the United States. He also wrote short stories for noted magazines, published books, and penned scripts for the stage and screen. In Irvin S. Cobb: The Rise and Fall of a Southern Humorist, historian William E. Ellis examines the life of this significant writer. Though a consummate wordsmith and a talented observer of the comical in everyday life, Cobb was a product of the Reconstruction era and the Jim Crow South. As a party to the endemic racism of his time, he often bemoaned the North’s harsh treatment of the South and stereotyped African Americans in his writings. Marred by racist undertones, Cobb’s work has largely slipped into obscurity. Nevertheless, Ellis argues that Cobb’s life and works are worthy of more detailed study, citing his wide-ranging contributions to media culture and his coverage of some of the biggest stories of his day, including on-the-ground reporting during World War I. A valuable resource for students of journalism, American humor, and popular culture, this illuminating biography explores Cobb’s life and his influence on early twentieth-century letters.
Stickfuls
Author: Irvin Shrewsbury CobbPublisher: Classic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
High quality reprint of Stickfuls: Compositions of a Newspaper Minion by Irvin S. Cobb.
Circulating Jim Crow
Author: Adam McKiblePublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231559496
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
In the early twentieth century, the Saturday Evening Post was perhaps the most popular and influential magazine in the United States, establishing literary reputations and shaping American culture. In the popular imagination, it is best remembered for Norman Rockwell’s covers, which nostalgically depicted a wholesome and idyllic American way of life. But beneath those covers lurked a more troubling reality. Under the direction of its longtime editor, George Horace Lorimer, the magazine helped justify racism and white supremacy. It published works by white authors that made heavy use of paternalistic tropes and demeaning humor, portraying Jim Crow segregation and violence as simple common sense. Circulating Jim Crow demonstrates how the Post used stereotypical dialect fiction to promulgate white supremacist ideology and dismiss Black achievements, citizenship, and humanity. Adam McKible tells the story of Lorimer’s rise to prominence and examines the white authors who provided the editor and his readers with the caricatures they craved. He also explores how Black writers of the Harlem Renaissance pushed back against the Post and its commodified racism. McKible places the erstwhile household names who wrote for the magazine in conversation with figures such as Paul Laurence Dunbar, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ann Petry, W. E. B. Du Bois, and William Faulkner. Revealing the role of the Saturday Evening Post in normalizing racism for millions of readers, this book also offers a new understanding of how Black writers challenged Jim Crow ideology.
Newspaper Editing - A Manual For Editors, Copyreaders And Students Of Newspaper Desk Work
Author: Grant Milnor HydePublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1528760530
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Much has happened in the newspaper profession and in the schools of journalism since this book was first published ten years ago. The newspapers have covered a World War and war periods have always brought the greatest changes in American newspapers have wrestled with doubled costs of production, reduced staffs, much merging, curtailed income, and are now deep in the perplexities of reconstruction. Meanwhile schools and courses in journalism have greatly increased in number, enrolment, and branches of instruction. When the book was presented in 1915, it was the first textbook entirely devoted to the problems and technique of newspaper desk work. It has, therefore, been widely used in classes in copyreading, headline writing, and make-up, as well as in newspaper offices. Its contents have been put to a severe test, and some have been found wanting. The author himself, in using it year after year in class, filled many page margins with suggestions for improvement. Hence, in preparation for its tenth anniversary, it is well that the book should receive a thorough overhauling to bring it up to date, to put in some things omitted before, to make it more usable and teachable. Its general structure has not been changed. Most of the alterations are in the chapters on copyreading, headline writing, make-up, and type, but many additions have been made in other chapters. Class exercises have now been added to each chapter to present in brief much of the technique of teaching, as it has developed in the larger schools. They are intended to be suggestive, not only to the teacher, but to independent students and young newspaper workers. A bibliography has been added to suggest further reading. In the schools of journalism, the methods of teaching copyreading have developed during the period since first publication probably more than any other branch and have been somewhat standardized.
Who's who Among North American Authors
Author: Alberta LawrencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description
"Covering the United States and Canada [with their possessions and neighbors] and containing the biographical and literary data of living authors whose birth or activities connect them with the continent of North America, with a press section devoted to journalists and magazine writers" (varies slightly).
Catalog of the Schmulowitz Collection of Wit and Humor (SCOWAH)
Author: San Francisco Public Library. Schmulowitz CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin
Author: St. Louis Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
"Teachers' bulletin", vol. 4- issued as part of v. 23, no. 9-
Irvin S. Cobb
Author: Wayne ChattertonPublisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description