Author: R. L. PagetPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337880699
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Poetry of American Wit and Humor
Author: R. L. PagetPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337880699
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor
Author: Thomas L. MassonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368351230
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Down in the Bottom of the Bottom of the Box
Author: JonArno LawsonPublisher: The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN: 0889843546
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Grade level: 6, 7, 8, 9, e, i, s.
Poetry of American Wit and Humor
Author: Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor
Author: James Whitcomb RileyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781512199628
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
"Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor " from James Whitcomb Riley. American writer and poet (1849-1916).
Lyric as Comedy
Author: Calista McRaePublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501750984
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
A poet walks into a bar... In Lyric as Comedy, Calista McRae explores the unexpected comic opportunities within recent American poems about deeply personal, often embarrassing, experiences. Lyric poems, she finds, can be surprising sites of a shifting, unruly comedy, as seen in the work of John Berryman, Robert Lowell, A. R. Ammons, Terrance Hayes, Morgan Parker, Natalie Shapero, and Monica Youn. Lyric as Comedy draws out the ways in which key American poets have struggled with persistent expectations about what expressive poetry can and should do. McRae reveals how the modern lyric, rather than bestowing order on the poet's thoughts and emotions, can center on impropriety and confusion, formal breakage and linguistic unruliness, and self-observation and self-staging. The close readings in Lyric as Comedy also provide new insight into the theory and aesthetics of comedy, taking in the indirect, glancing comic affordances of poetry. In doing so, McRae captures varieties of humor that do not align with traditional terms, centering abjection and pleasure as facets of contemporary lyric practice.
The Poetry of American Wit and Humor
Author: Seriously Funny
Author: Barbara HambyPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820330876
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Can serious poetry be funny? Chaucer and Shakespeare would say yes, and so do the authors of these 187 poems that address timeless concerns but that also include comic elements. Beginning with the Beats and the New York School and continuing with both marquee-name poets and newcomers, Seriously Funny ranges from poems that are capsized by their own tomfoolery to those that glow with quiet wit to ones in which a laugh erupts in the midst of terrible darkness. Most of the selections were made in the editors' battered compact car, otherwise known as the Seriously Funny Mobile Unit. During the two years in which Barbara Hamby and David Kirby made their choices, they'd set out with a couple of boxes of books in the back seat, and whoever wasn't driving read to the other. When they found that a poem made both of them think but laugh as well, they earmarked it. Readers will find a true generosity in these poems, an eagerness to share ideas and emotions and also to entertain. The singer Ali Farka Tour said that honey is never good when it's only in one mouth, and the editors of Seriously Funny hope its readers find much to share with others.
The Poetry of American Wit and Humor
Author: Frederic Lawrence KnowlesPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337484637
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
POETRY OF AMER WIT & HUMOR SEL
Author: Frederic Lawrence 1869-1905 KnowlesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781371393267
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description