American humor
Subtitle: essays presented to John C. Gerber
By: edited by O M Brack, Jr.
Contributors: Gerber, John C.; Brack, O M.
Publisher: Arete Publications
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Scottsdale, Ariz
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Gerber, John C.; American wit and humor -- History and criticism.; American literature -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hill, H. Black humor and the mass audience.; title: Clendenning, J. Anything goes.; title: Kern, A. C. Melville's The confidence-man.; title: Duke, M. John Wilford Overall's Southern punch.; title: Simpson, C. M. Huck Finn after Huck Finn.; title: Gibson, W. M. Mark Twain's "Carnival of crime."; title: Bush, S. The showman as hero in Mark Twain's fiction.; title: Mellard, J. M. Soldiers' pay and the growth of Faulkner's comedy.; title: Andrews, C. A. The comic element in Iowa literature.; title: Gessel, M. Katherine Anne Porter.; title: Heflin, W. A. Russell Wayne Baker.; title: Cawelti, J. G. The sanity of Mad.