Author: Roz Morris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781909905924
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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As featured on BBC radio For Bill Bryson fans. An eccentric couple take the road less travelled through the English countryside and meet lovelorn tourist guides, pushy shopkeepers, ESP students, immortality seekers and weary bodyguards. Cornwall, Devon, Shropshire, Lincolnshire, Somerset, Suffolk,
Author: Melville De Lancey Landon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 794
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Author: Margaret S. Mooney
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Author: Matthew Foster
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781462084166
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 137
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Category : Authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Author: John D. Edwards
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Category : Carpentry
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Author: Daniel Wickberg
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801454379
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
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Why do modern Americans believe in something called a sense of humor and how did they come to that belief? Daniel Wickberg traces the cultural history of the concept from its British origins as a way to explore new conceptions of the self and social order in modern America. More than simply the history of an idea, Wickberg's study provides new insights into a peculiarly modern cultural sensibility.The expression "sense of humor" was first coined in the 1840s and the idea that such a sense was a personality trait to be valued developed only in the 1870s. What is the relationship between Medieval humoral medicine and this distinctively modern idea of the sense of humor? What has it meant in the past 125 years to declare that someone lacks a sense of humor? How is the joke, as a twentieth-century quasi-literary form, different from the traditional folktale? Wickberg addresses these questions, among others, using the history of ideas to throw new light on the way contemporary Americans think and speak.The context of Wickberg's analysis is Anglo-American; the specifically British meanings of humor and laughter from the sixteenth century forward provide the framework for understanding American cultural values in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The genealogy of the sense of humor is, like the study of keywords, an avenue into a significant aspect of the cultural history of modernity. Drawing on a wide range of sources and disciplinary perspectives, Wickberg's analysis challenges many of the prevailing views of modern American culture and suggests a new model for cultural historians.
Author: Thomas S. Denison
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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"Lively plays for live people" by Thomas S. Denison. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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Category : Readers and speakers
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Author: Boston Port and Seamen's Aid Society
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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