American humor : essays presented to John C. Gerber /
Gerber, John C.
Brack, O M.
Scottsdale, Ariz. : Arete Publications,
c1977.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Hill, H. Black humor and the mass audience.--Clendenning, J. Anything goes.--Kern, A. C. Melville's The confidence-man.--Duke, M. John Wilford Overall's Southern punch.--Simpson, C. M. Huck Finn after Huck Finn.--Gibson, W. M. Mark Twain's "Carnival of crime."--Bush, S. The showman as hero in Mark Twain's fiction.--Mellard, J. M. Soldiers' pay and the growth of Faulkner's comedy.--Andrews, C. A. The comic element in Iowa literature.--Gessel, M. Katherine Anne Porter.--Heflin, W. A. Russell Wayne Baker.--Cawelti, J. G. The sanity of Mad.
Gerber, John C.
American wit and humor
American literature