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South Atlantic Quarterly (1985) 84 (4): 439–440.
Published: 01 October 1985
...Edward L. Galligan God Be With The Clown: Humor in American Poetry . By Wallace Ronald . Columbia : University of Missouri Press , 1984 . Pp. 235 . $23.00 . Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Book Reviews 439 always clear. Accordingly, as in Humboldt s Gift...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1919) 18 (3): 246–251.
Published: 01 July 1919
...Robert C. Whitford Copyright © 1919 by Duke University Press 1919 The Humor of W. W. Jacobs Eobebt C. Whitford University of Illinois Mr. William Wymark Jacobs is one of the few comic writers of our day whose writings have at all the flavor of literature. On this account his literary product...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1974) 73 (4): 504–515.
Published: 01 October 1974
...Louis Hasley Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 James Thurber: Artist in Humor Louis Hasley Beyond question the foremost humorist of the twentieth century, James Thurber was a divided man. With minor exceptions he did not explore the century s large social and political problems...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1967) 66 (3): 473–474.
Published: 01 July 1967
...Robert Regan BOOKS Mark Twain: The Fate of Humor. By James M. Cox. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966. Pp. viii, 321. $7.50. Perhaps we should not take issue with the critics and biog raphers who find the man who wrote Huckleberry Finn and the man who owned the company which published...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1939) 38 (2): 177–186.
Published: 01 April 1939
...DeLancey Ferguson Copyright © 1939 by Duke University Press 1939 ON HUMOR AS ONE OF THE FINE ARTS DeLANCEY FERGUSON ONE OF THE MOST firmly rooted of Anglo-American con victions is the dogma that American humor rests on exaggera tion. Long an article of faith in the British Isles, the dogma...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1963) 62 (1): 144–145.
Published: 01 January 1963
...Charles S. Holmes Mark Twain’s Humor: The Image of a World . By Covici Pascal Jr. Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press , 1962 . Pp. vii , 266 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 144 The South Atlantic Quarterly Joseph Kirkland. By Clyde E. Henson...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1910) 9 (3): 222–229.
Published: 01 July 1910
...Carl Holliday, M. A. Copyright © 1910 by Duke University Press 1910 Some Bits of Colonial Humor. Carl Holliday, M. A. Professor of English in the Southwestern Presbyterian University. As we look at the cold, stern portraits of the Puritan fathers or read their strict statutes and closely...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1960) 59 (4): 580–581.
Published: 01 October 1960
...Louis J. Budd Mark Twain and Southwestern Humor . By Lynn Kenneth S. . Boston : Atlantic—Little, Brown and Company , 1960 . Pp. 300 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 580 The South Atlantic Quarterly confidence in man s power to help himself is lost...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1972) 71 (4): 539–547.
Published: 01 October 1972
...Linwood E. Orange Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 "All Bent to Mirth : Spenser s Humorous Wordplay Linwood E. Orange As Professor Allan Gilbert amply demonstrated in an article pub lished a few years back, Spenser s designation as a better teacher than Aquinas has...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (2-3): 397–404.
Published: 01 July 2003
...Behiç Ak 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Behiç Ak
Humoring the State
Every day during the past twenty years, Behiç
Ak’s cartoon strip in the daily Cumhuriyet has
confronted the Turkish people with the para...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1966) 65 (1): 21–33.
Published: 01 January 1966
... investigators, might have fallen asleep in 1925 during a speech to a business or labor group, awakened in 1935, and gone right on with his interrupted address to the same people with much the same ideas. 1 One unexpected source of in formation about the popular temper during those years is periodi cal humor...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1924) 23 (3): 269–276.
Published: 01 July 1924
...Robert Withington Copyright © 1924 by Duke University Press 1924 Of The Romantic Essay Robert Withington Smith College One is often tempted to wonder if, in their essence, humor and romance are not mutually exclusive qualities incompatible, if not, indeed, antithetical; and if this be so...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1938) 37 (1): 86–96.
Published: 01 January 1938
... Copyright © 1938 by Duke University Press 1938 BOOK- S AN ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN HUMOR Native American Humor (1800-1900). By Walter Blair. New York and Cincinnati: The American Book Company, 1937. Pp. xv, 573- $3-oo. The present volume represents the combination of a textbook and a scholarly...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1945) 44 (2): 170–176.
Published: 01 April 1945
...James Paul Brawner THOREAU AS WIT AND HUMORIST JAMES PAUL BRAWNER ONE OF THE most unaccountable judgments in the history of American literary criticism is that of James Russell Lowell on Henry Thoreau: He had no humor. Lowell did not elaborate this bald statement, but let it fall as if he had...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1973) 72 (1): 82–94.
Published: 01 January 1973
..., it would be very difficult to pronounce it a tragedy or to suggest that the society of man would have been better off if it had never taken place. Yet for all that, it is remarkable how comparatively little at tention has been paid to American humor and to the comic imag ination in general by those who...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1947) 46 (3): 384–389.
Published: 01 July 1947
.... But in spite of the ballyhoo and publicity given these innovations, neither the stage nor screen has discarded any trace of medievalism which holds sure-fire audience appeal. The cliches found in medieval literature, the stock situa tions, the humor typical of Chaucer and his disciples are still found today...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1976) 75 (2): 145–160.
Published: 01 April 1976
...Edward L. Galligan Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 The Usefulness of Arthur Koestler s Theory of Jokes Edward L. Galligan I would like to discuss the theory of humor that Arthur Koestler developed in The Act of Creation. It is the most comprehensive and most helpful theory...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1965) 64 (2): 271–272.
Published: 01 April 1965
...]. Pp. 410. $4.95. As his title indicates, Mr. Yates restricts himself to writers known primarily as humorists, thus eliminating William Faulkner, for example, and other novelists, poets, and dramatists who would stand large in an inclusive survey of American humor in this century. His humorists wrote...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1957) 56 (4): 454–461.
Published: 01 October 1957
...C. N. Stavrou Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 SOME IMPLICATIONS OF CHAUCER S IRONY C. N. Stavrou IRONY AND HUMOR require a high degree of intellectual maturity. The ironist or humorist must be a master of perspec tive. He must be able to see life steadily and to see it whole...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1969) 68 (3): 343–362.
Published: 01 July 1969
... reached its mature development in a series of short comic novels which are admirable modern instances of the Old Southwest humor, exemplifying every characteristic of the genre as formulated in recent scholarship. He painted in oils and in water color after a primitive style of considerable charm...
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