A Celebration of laughter.
By: Edited by Werner M. Mendel.
Contributors: Mendel, Werner M. 1927- ed.; Grotjahn, Martin, 1904-
Publisher: Mara Books
Published: 1970
Place of publication: [Los Angeles, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Wit and humor -- History and criticism.
Description: Essays on the nature of humor and laughter.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Written to celebrate the sixty-fifth birthday of Martin Grotjahn.
Table of contents: title: Interview with Martin Grotjahn, by L. Mendel.; title: Humor in America, by R. Sklar.; title: It isn't just MIRV, by A. Buchwald.; title: Humor and paradox, by R. Bellman.; title: The third eye of the cartoonist, by M. Grotjahn.; title: The smile, by E. Stainbrook.; title: Laughter in psychotherapy, by M. Grotjahn.; title: The destructive potential of humor in psychotherapy, by L. S. Kubie.; title: "Gay" jocularity of the homosexual, by L. Veszy-Wagner.; title: Grave humor, by R. E. Litman.; title: Young Freud as a poet, by A. S. Rogawski.; title: A God who laughs, by C. Weber.; title: Jewish jokes and their relation to masochism, by M. Grotjahn.; title: "Black"/black humor: the renaissance of laughter, by J. Boskin.; title: Laughter and sex, by M. Grotjahn.; title: From humor to happiness, by M. Grotjahn.; title: The new laughter, by W. M. Mendel.