Author: Hugh Reginald HaweisPublisher: London : Chatto and Windus
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Encyclopedia of American Humorists
Author: Steven H. GalePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317362276
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
First published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the past, treated as inferior to British literature, there has always been a large popular audience for the genre, which this book shows. The figures with entries in this encyclopedia not only amuse in their writing, but also aim to enlighten- setting out to expose the foibles and foolishness of society and the individuals who compose it. It is the manner in which these authors try to accomplish this end that determines whether they appear in the volume. Indeed, the book will demonstrate that the best humor has at its base, a ready understanding of human nature.
Country Music Humorists and Comedians
Author: Loyal JonesPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252033698
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
This volume is an encyclopedia of country music performers who have used comedy as a central component of their presentation. Loyal Jones offers a conversational and informative biographical sketch of each performer, often including a sample of the musician's humor, a recording history, and amusing anecdotal tidbits. In an entertaining style, Jones covers performers throughout the twentieth century, from such early stars of vaudeville and radio barn dances as the Skillet Lickers and the Weaver Brothers and Elviry, to regulars on Hee Haw and the Grand Old Opry, continuing to current comedians such as the Austin Lounge Lizards, Ray Stevens, and Jeff Foxworthy.
American Humorists
Author: Hugh Reginald HaweisPublisher: London : Chatto and Windus
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Humorists
Author: Paul JohnsonPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062024868
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
“It is Johnson’s gift that he can make his subjects human and fallible enough that we would…recognize them instantly, while also illuminating what made them heroes.” —Washington Post Book World on Heroes “Johnson is a clear, intelligent, forceful writer, and nothing if not thorough.” —Wall Street Journal Paul Johnson, the acclaimed author of Creators, Heroes, and the New York Times bestseller Intellectuals, returns with a captivating collection of biographical portraits of the Western world’s greatest wits and humorists. With chapters dedicated to history’s sharpest tongues and most piercing pens, including Benjamin Franklin, Toulouse-Lautrec, G.K. Chesterton, Damon Runyan, W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, and many more, Johnson’s Humorists is an exciting compendium of our most enduring comical and satirical innovators.
The American Press Humorists' Book
Author: Frank Thompson SearightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Our American Humorists
Author: Thomas Lansing MassonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Mark Twain, American Humorist
Author: Tracy WusterPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826274110
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Mark Twain, American Humorist examines the ways that Mark Twain’s reputation developed at home and abroad in the period between 1865 and 1882, years in which he went from a regional humorist to national and international fame. In the late 1860s, Mark Twain became the exemplar of a school of humor that was thought to be uniquely American. As he moved into more respectable venues in the 1870s, especially through the promotion of William Dean Howells in the Atlantic Monthly, Mark Twain muddied the hierarchical distinctions between class-appropriate leisure and burgeoning forms of mass entertainment, between uplifting humor and debased laughter, and between the literature of high culture and the passing whim of the merely popular.
Encyclopedia of British Humorists
Author: Steven H. GalePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780824059903
Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A Confederacy of Dunces
Author: John Kennedy ToolePublisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802197620
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1688
Book Description