Author: Joseph Chesley Burke
Publisher: St. John's, Nfld. : Breakwater Books
ISBN: 9780919519978
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Dr. Joe Burke, a native Newfoundlander, enjoys a good story and delights in telling stories about his fun loving countrymen. Someone has to keep the humor mills running in Canada, he says, or we will all die of melancholy. There is a little chance of that when you read, A Treasury of Newfoundland Humor and Wit. Dr. Burke has provided for us a rare collection of the most humorous anecdotes and wit attributed to the fun loving people of the happy province. To add to your enjoyment, L B Jenson has contributed immeasurably in providing illustrations that depict Newfoundland's scenic beauty and way of life. To all the mainlanders who read this book we hope that you will get a good impression of what it's like back'ome.
Author: Christie Davies
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351479377
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 347
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The Mirth of Nations is a social and historical study of jokes told in the principal English-speaking countries. It is based on use of archives and other primary sources, including old and rare joke books. Davies makes detailed comparisons between the humor of specific pairs of nations and ethnic and regional groups. In this way, he achieves an appreciation of the unique characteristics of the humor of each nation or group.A tightly argued book, The Mirth of Nations uses the comparative method to undermine existing theories of humor, which are rooted in notions of hostility, conflict, and superiority, and derive ultimately from Hobbes and Freud. Instead Davies argues that humor merely plays with aggression and with rule-breaking, and that the form this play takes is determined by social structures and intellectual traditions. It is not related to actual conflicts between groups. In particular, Davies convincingly argues that Jewish humor and jokes are neither uniquely nor overwhelmingly self-mocking as many writers since Freud have suggested. Rather Jewish jokes, like Scottish humor and jokes are the product of a strong cultural tradition of analytical thinking and intelligent self-awareness.The volume shows that the forty-year popularity of the Polish joke cycle in America was not a product of any special negative feeling towards Poles. Jokes are not serious and are not a form of determined aggression against others or against one's own group. The Mirth of Nations is readable as well as revisionist. It is written with great clarity and puts forward difficult and complex arguments without jargon in an accessible manner. Its rich use of examples of all kinds of humor entertains the reader, who will enjoy a great variety of jokes while being enlightened by the author's careful explanations of why particular sets of jokes exist and are immensely popular. The book will appeal to general readers as well as those in cultural stu
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Publisher: University of Toronto Press
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Category : Canada Imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1610
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Author: Memorial University of Newfoundland. Department of Folklore
Publisher: St. John's, Nfld. : Breakwater for the Department of folklore, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Author: Albert-Reiner Glaap
Publisher: Heidelberg : Winter
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Category : Commonwealth countries
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Author: Kent Thompson
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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