Title: New directions in American humor /
Authors: Sloane, David E. E., 1943-
Publisher: University of Alabama Press,
Year: 1998
Subjects: American wit and humor History and criticism.; American wit and humor History and criticism
Contents: "Change it! This sucks!" : Beavis and Butt-head, idiot savants of cultural criticism / Douglas Sun -- How MTV "re-butts" the satiric argument of Beavis and Butt-head / Gregg Camfield -- Now's the time : the Richard Pryor phenomenon and the triumph of Black culture / Siva Vaidhyanathan -- The comic Texan in film : a regional stereotype in the national imagination / Don Graham -- The "funny Republican" : P.J. O'Rourke and the graying of boomer humor / Thomas Grant -- The Mark Twain of baseball? : A proposal for humor research of turn-of-the-century American sportswriting / David G. Lott --Humor high and low : an introduction / Steven H. Gale -- Talking back to the culture : contemporary women's comic art / Nancy A. Walker -- "Old maids" and wily "widders" : the humor of Ruth McEnery Stuart / Judy Sneller -- "Quite unclassifiable" : crossing genres, crossing genders in Twain and Greene / Karen L. Kilcup -- Making fun of the critics : Edith Wharton's anticipation of the postmodern academic romance / Michele S. Ware -- The Comstock matrix of Twain's humor / Lawrence I. Berkove -- Mark Twain's fingerprints in Pudd'nhead Wilson / Louis J. Budd -- Eddie didn't do stand-up : some keys to Poe's humor / David Tomlinson -- Mark Twain and the funny magic of the German language / Holger Kersten -- Huck Finn on his best behavior : the problem of translation / James R. Papp -- Linguistic affinities : translating Bryce Echenique's Lima humor for readers of English / Alita Kelley ; French and Spanish translations by Alita Kelley -- Teaching a text-based humor course : "You can't get there from here, stranger" / Donald Barlow Stauffer -- New directions in American humor : an afterword / David E.E. Sloane.