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Humor Scholarship A Research Bibliography
By Don L. F. Nilsen
ISBN: 0-313-28441-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-28441-0
416 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 2/28/1993
List Price: $99.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Bibliographies and Indexes in Popular Culture
Series Number: 1
Reviews:
  • Essays reveal a strong scholarly understanding and involvement with the expanding field of humor studies. As in Nilsen's previous volume, citations included are a highly selective choice of books, journal articles, and reference sources he feels will provide the best guidance to investigators new to humor studies and to teachers preparing courses. Chapters on national styles and ethnicity are especially interesting, providing sections on Asian, Jewish, Eastern European, and Russian as well as Western European and American humor.
    —Choice
  • ...solid works, like Humor Scholarship and What's So Funny?, can also play an important role in the more general acceptance of works on popular culture...Nilsen's solid research bibliography ....gets the series off to an excellent start.
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    Popular Culture In Libraries
Description: The serious study of humor has burgeoned in the last two decades, spawning a wealth of publications touching upon an array of topics crossing national, cultural, and disciplinary lines. This research bibliography captures the vibrancy and significance of the field of humor studies while documenting its output. Organized into ten broad chapters reflecting types of humor and topics of humor research, it provides extensive bibliographies on forty-five fields of humor study, each introduced by an essay outlining trends and pointing to major findings. An appendix of humor research institutes, journals, scholars and academic programs as well as a subject and author index to the thousands of sources complete the volume. Intended largely for library use by scholars and students in humor studies, the volume's topical essays are valuable for text use in related courses; the work's extensive bibliographies will foster research in diverse fields with a focus on humor.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Humor and the Individual
  • The Humor of Personal Interactions
  • Language Play and Rhetorical Devices
  • Humor and the Media
  • National Styles of Humor
  • Humor and Ethnicity
  • Humor in Mythology and Religion
  • Humor and the Fine Arts
  • Humor, Maturity, and Education
  • Humor Theory and Epistemology
  • Appendix: Humor Resources
  • Index
LC Card Number: 92-38989
LCC Class: Z6514
Dewey Class: 016.128
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