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Mark Twain : the gift of humor / / Harold H. Kolb Jr
| Mark Twain : the gift of humor / / Harold H. Kolb Jr |
| Autore | Kolb Harold H. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (518 p.) |
| Disciplina | 818.409 |
| Soggetto topico | Wit and humor |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-7618-6778-3
0-7618-6421-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; I: Introduction; 1 The Shape of a Humorist's Career; A Peculiar Genius; Forty-Five Years as a Serio-Humorist; A Century of Criticism; A Humorist's Self-Definition; II: Toward a Discussion of Humor; 2 The Physics of Humor; I; II; III; IV; 3 The Psychology of Humor; Relaxation; Coping; Aggression; 4 The Sociology of Humor; American Humor; The Morality of Humor; Mark Twain and the Natives, at Home and Abroad; III: Early Years: Comic Creations (1851-1872); 5 The Strategy of Counterpoint; The Apprenticeship of a Humorist
The Clash of Contrast and the Stretch of ExaggerationJump-Starting a Career; A Humorist Afloat; The Innocents Abroad; Samson Trimmed, Lightly; Roughing It; 6 Throw in Another Grizzly; I; II; III; IV: Middle Years: The Triumph of Satire (1873-1889); 7 Old Times and New Narrators; "Old Times on the Mississippi"; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; A Joke for John: The Whittier Birthday Speech; Tramping with Twichell; A Turn to History: The Prince and the Pauper; 8 The Non-Example of Bret Harte; I; II; III; 9 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Joke on Jim Beyond Jim: The Humor of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn10 Comic Contrast and Violent Humor; Comic and Satiric Contrasts; The Humor of Violence; Satire and Poignancy; 11 The Advocacy of W. D. Howells; I; II; III; IV; V: Later Years: The Humorist as Ironist (1890-1910); 12 The Not-So-Gay Nineties; Busted; A Bankrupt Abroad; Raffish Reviewer; Twain's Twins: Pudd'nhead Wilson; Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc; Gains and Losses; 13 A Subtle Humorist; Recovery; Following the Equator; Vienna and London; Homecoming; Satirist vs. Imperialists; Adam and Eve; The Higher Animals The Christian Science AutocracyShakespeare and the Law; God and Man; Pessimist?; VI: Remnants; 14 Mysterious Strangers; The Texts; Editorial Pain; Symbols, and a Theory, of Despair; 15 An Uncharted Sea of Recollection; Four Twentieth-Century Editions; The Twenty-First Century Definitive Autobiography; "The Right Way to Do an Autobiography"; Appendix; Books by Mark Twain: A Selected List of American Editions Published in His Lifetime; Tales and Sketches; Posthumously Published Works; Sources; Key to Abbreviations; Other Works Cited; Notes; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463298303321 |
Kolb Harold H.
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| Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Mark Twain : the gift of humor / / Harold H. Kolb Jr
| Mark Twain : the gift of humor / / Harold H. Kolb Jr |
| Autore | Kolb Harold H. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (518 p.) |
| Disciplina | 818.409 |
| Soggetto topico | Wit and humor |
| ISBN |
0-7618-6778-3
0-7618-6421-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; I: Introduction; 1 The Shape of a Humorist's Career; A Peculiar Genius; Forty-Five Years as a Serio-Humorist; A Century of Criticism; A Humorist's Self-Definition; II: Toward a Discussion of Humor; 2 The Physics of Humor; I; II; III; IV; 3 The Psychology of Humor; Relaxation; Coping; Aggression; 4 The Sociology of Humor; American Humor; The Morality of Humor; Mark Twain and the Natives, at Home and Abroad; III: Early Years: Comic Creations (1851-1872); 5 The Strategy of Counterpoint; The Apprenticeship of a Humorist
The Clash of Contrast and the Stretch of ExaggerationJump-Starting a Career; A Humorist Afloat; The Innocents Abroad; Samson Trimmed, Lightly; Roughing It; 6 Throw in Another Grizzly; I; II; III; IV: Middle Years: The Triumph of Satire (1873-1889); 7 Old Times and New Narrators; "Old Times on the Mississippi"; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; A Joke for John: The Whittier Birthday Speech; Tramping with Twichell; A Turn to History: The Prince and the Pauper; 8 The Non-Example of Bret Harte; I; II; III; 9 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Joke on Jim Beyond Jim: The Humor of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn10 Comic Contrast and Violent Humor; Comic and Satiric Contrasts; The Humor of Violence; Satire and Poignancy; 11 The Advocacy of W. D. Howells; I; II; III; IV; V: Later Years: The Humorist as Ironist (1890-1910); 12 The Not-So-Gay Nineties; Busted; A Bankrupt Abroad; Raffish Reviewer; Twain's Twins: Pudd'nhead Wilson; Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc; Gains and Losses; 13 A Subtle Humorist; Recovery; Following the Equator; Vienna and London; Homecoming; Satirist vs. Imperialists; Adam and Eve; The Higher Animals The Christian Science AutocracyShakespeare and the Law; God and Man; Pessimist?; VI: Remnants; 14 Mysterious Strangers; The Texts; Editorial Pain; Symbols, and a Theory, of Despair; 15 An Uncharted Sea of Recollection; Four Twentieth-Century Editions; The Twenty-First Century Definitive Autobiography; "The Right Way to Do an Autobiography"; Appendix; Books by Mark Twain: A Selected List of American Editions Published in His Lifetime; Tales and Sketches; Posthumously Published Works; Sources; Key to Abbreviations; Other Works Cited; Notes; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787923103321 |
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Kolb Harold H.
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| Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Mark Twain : the gift of humor / / Harold H. Kolb Jr
| Mark Twain : the gift of humor / / Harold H. Kolb Jr |
| Autore | Kolb Harold H. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (518 p.) |
| Disciplina | 818.409 |
| Soggetto topico | Wit and humor |
| ISBN |
0-7618-6778-3
0-7618-6421-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; I: Introduction; 1 The Shape of a Humorist's Career; A Peculiar Genius; Forty-Five Years as a Serio-Humorist; A Century of Criticism; A Humorist's Self-Definition; II: Toward a Discussion of Humor; 2 The Physics of Humor; I; II; III; IV; 3 The Psychology of Humor; Relaxation; Coping; Aggression; 4 The Sociology of Humor; American Humor; The Morality of Humor; Mark Twain and the Natives, at Home and Abroad; III: Early Years: Comic Creations (1851-1872); 5 The Strategy of Counterpoint; The Apprenticeship of a Humorist
The Clash of Contrast and the Stretch of ExaggerationJump-Starting a Career; A Humorist Afloat; The Innocents Abroad; Samson Trimmed, Lightly; Roughing It; 6 Throw in Another Grizzly; I; II; III; IV: Middle Years: The Triumph of Satire (1873-1889); 7 Old Times and New Narrators; "Old Times on the Mississippi"; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; A Joke for John: The Whittier Birthday Speech; Tramping with Twichell; A Turn to History: The Prince and the Pauper; 8 The Non-Example of Bret Harte; I; II; III; 9 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Joke on Jim Beyond Jim: The Humor of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn10 Comic Contrast and Violent Humor; Comic and Satiric Contrasts; The Humor of Violence; Satire and Poignancy; 11 The Advocacy of W. D. Howells; I; II; III; IV; V: Later Years: The Humorist as Ironist (1890-1910); 12 The Not-So-Gay Nineties; Busted; A Bankrupt Abroad; Raffish Reviewer; Twain's Twins: Pudd'nhead Wilson; Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc; Gains and Losses; 13 A Subtle Humorist; Recovery; Following the Equator; Vienna and London; Homecoming; Satirist vs. Imperialists; Adam and Eve; The Higher Animals The Christian Science AutocracyShakespeare and the Law; God and Man; Pessimist?; VI: Remnants; 14 Mysterious Strangers; The Texts; Editorial Pain; Symbols, and a Theory, of Despair; 15 An Uncharted Sea of Recollection; Four Twentieth-Century Editions; The Twenty-First Century Definitive Autobiography; "The Right Way to Do an Autobiography"; Appendix; Books by Mark Twain: A Selected List of American Editions Published in His Lifetime; Tales and Sketches; Posthumously Published Works; Sources; Key to Abbreviations; Other Works Cited; Notes; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818028603321 |
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Kolb Harold H.
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| Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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