Author: William Montgomery Clemens
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Famous Funny Fellows
Author: William Montgomery Clemens
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Publisher:
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Essays on American Humor
Author: Walter Blair
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299136246
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Walter Blair was the literary scholar who almost single-handedly gave the study of American humor significance in the academic world. By categorizing the writings of American literary humorists into such diverse styles as the Old Southwest, Local Color, and Literary Comedian humor -- each having serious social import--Blair abolished the notion that they were all practicing the same kind of intellectual irreverence. Moving through more than six decades of Walter Blair's works, Essays on American Humor: Blair through the Ages provides a comprehensive introduction to the discipline he developed. Hamlin Hill has selected and ordered this collection to show the scope of Blair's expertise, which encompasses the careers of tall-tale characters like Baron Munchausen as well as the achievements of such real-life humorists as E. B. White. The pieces range in time from Blair's introduction to the 1928 edition of Julia A. Moore's poetry to his 1989 introduction to a work commemorating Davy Crockett's two-hundredth anniversary. Historical and biographical essays, source-and-influence studies, and analyses of texts constitute the bulk of the book. An entire section is devoted to discourses on Mark Twain, Blair's major subject.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299136246
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Walter Blair was the literary scholar who almost single-handedly gave the study of American humor significance in the academic world. By categorizing the writings of American literary humorists into such diverse styles as the Old Southwest, Local Color, and Literary Comedian humor -- each having serious social import--Blair abolished the notion that they were all practicing the same kind of intellectual irreverence. Moving through more than six decades of Walter Blair's works, Essays on American Humor: Blair through the Ages provides a comprehensive introduction to the discipline he developed. Hamlin Hill has selected and ordered this collection to show the scope of Blair's expertise, which encompasses the careers of tall-tale characters like Baron Munchausen as well as the achievements of such real-life humorists as E. B. White. The pieces range in time from Blair's introduction to the 1928 edition of Julia A. Moore's poetry to his 1989 introduction to a work commemorating Davy Crockett's two-hundredth anniversary. Historical and biographical essays, source-and-influence studies, and analyses of texts constitute the bulk of the book. An entire section is devoted to discourses on Mark Twain, Blair's major subject.
Supplement No. 1 to the Alphabetical Finding List of the Free Public Library of Jersey City. Oct. 1, 1891
Author: Free Public Library of Jersey City
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors: 1855-1874
Author: Charles Wells Moulton
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Bulletin
Author: Boston Public Library
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)
A.L.A. Index to General Literature
Author: American Library Association
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Category : Indexes
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Category : Indexes
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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The "A.L.A." Index
Author: William Isaac Fletcher
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Category : Indexes
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Category : Indexes
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Catalogue of the Libraries
Author: Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, N.S.W.
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 994
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 994
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Catalogue of the Public Library of the City of Taunton, Mass
Author: Taunton (Mass.). Public Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Catalogue of the Public Library of the City of Taunton, Mass. Supplement
Author: Taunton (Mass.). Public Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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