Introduction : still good for a laugh? : political humor in a changing media landscape / Jody C Baumgartner and Amy B. Becker -- The rise of advocacy satire / Don J. Waisanen -- Journalist or jokester? : an analysis of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / Julia R. Fox -- Partisa…
Introduction: A joke to the eye -- (Re)viewing Ellison's Invisible Man: comedy, rage, and cultural tradition in an African-American classic -- Dick Gregory, Moms Mabley, and Redd Foxx: African-American humor, stand-up comedy, and comic rage in mainstream America -- From absence …
The history of African American humor is difficult to piece together. Occluded by slavery's gaps and distorted by racist stereotypes, African American humor has few extant works prior to the early twentieth century. Tucker's study focuses on comic rage, which he defines as an Af…
Humor ist eines der stärksten und effizientesten Führungsinstrumente - so Gerhard Schwarz. Eine originelle, fundierte und aufschlussreiche Lektüre. Neu in der 2., überarbeiteten Auflage sind nützliche Ergänzungen zur Rolle des Humors bei der Konsensfindung in Gruppen und Organis…
Acknowledgments --Introduction --The good lie - The politics of hedonism in Marilyn Hacker's "Love, death, and the changing of the seasons" --Bursting at the seams - Exploding the confines of reification with creative constraints in Harryette Mullen's "Sleeping with the dictiona…
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"'The Satyricon' of Petronius and the 'Metamorphoses' (or 'The Golden Ass') of Apuleius are the only novels written at Rome before AD 200 to have survived. The genre is the comic romance, the literature of relaxation in the ancient world. This study defines the genre and sets it…
