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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 (1966) 65 (1): 155.
Published: 01 January 1966
... useful, to a world in crisis. The second part con siders Some Aspects of Henry James, among them Watch and Ward, literary borrowings, the tug of the fairy tale, and the importance of James to James Thurber. The Thurber chapter is the best in the book; Stone discusses Thurber s knowledge and use...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1966) 65 (1): 155–156.
Published: 01 January 1966
... useful, to a world in crisis. The second part con siders Some Aspects of Henry James, among them Watch and Ward, literary borrowings, the tug of the fairy tale, and the importance of James to James Thurber. The Thurber chapter is the best in the book; Stone discusses Thurber s knowledge and use...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1973) 72 (1): 115–121.
Published: 01 January 1973
...Louis Hasley Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 The Kangaroo Mind of S. J. Perelman Louis Hasley The best American humorists of this century? Not everyone would agree, of course. Certainly Lardner, Benchley, and Thurber would get the vote from most readers. And they are all dead...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1965) 64 (2): 271–272.
Published: 01 April 1965
... it and notes the progression from the humor of un lettered common sense in George Ade, Mr. Dooley, Kin Hubbard, Will Rogers, and Irvin S. Cobb, to the humor of sophistication and skepti cism in H. L. Mencken, Ring Lardner, and Don Marquis, and finally to E. B. White, James Thurber, and other portrayers...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1965) 64 (2): 269–271.
Published: 01 April 1965
... Lardner, and Don Marquis, and finally to E. B. White, James Thurber, and other portrayers of the Little Man, who cringes before a dominating wife, an intimidating employer, and the incomprehensible threats of a mechanized world. At one point in his introduction Mr. Yates names two dozen humorists he...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1947) 46 (4): 537–544.
Published: 01 October 1947
... of James Thurber, read well, just read the fables. As you have no doubt divined, the point is that George Ade is a genuine realist. Today those demagogues of literature, the SoftCentered Toughs, have things pretty much their own way. Bad criticism soon drives out good books, and critics rush in to deify...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1971) 70 (4): 467–476.
Published: 01 October 1971
... writing. For six years he was on the staff of Poetry magazine. Then in 1944, through James Thurber, he was welcomed to the New Yorker staff. Now, over a quarter-century later, he is still with the New Yorker as part-time cartoon editor. Peter De Vries s marriage, no doubt a happy one, to poet Katinka...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1949) 48 (2): 220–228.
Published: 01 April 1949
... fulsome in their praises. We need note only one instance: the New Yorker, instead of unleash ing those dogs of war, Thurber and White, of Is Sex Necessary? upon the three devoted researchers, found Bruce Bliven to write its lengthy commendation of Kinsey. So we shall say nothing as to the validity...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1939) 38 (2): 177–186.
Published: 01 April 1939
..., and an important part, of American humor. But if we are to define American humor by for mula, we must find a formula which will include not only Artemus Ward and John Phoenix but Oliver Wendell Holmes, O. Henry, Ring Lardner, Robert Benchley, Clarence Day, James Thurber, and Dorothy Parker. To assert...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1966) 65 (1): 34–45.
Published: 01 January 1966
... to come out second best in all the interesting battles. Because of this, refighting the Civil War battle by battle may obscure the historic outcome of the war. The re-enactment of Appomattox if they plan to re-enact it may find Grant handing his sword over to Lee, as James Thurber imagined. Clearly...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1968) 67 (1): 40–52.
Published: 01 January 1968
... opera was elaborately stylized, its effect, as James Thurber pointed out in his historic study of the genre, Soapland, was to convince many of its listeners that they were hearing real people in action, and their belief was testified to in the most concrete fashion by the messages and gifts...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1949) 48 (2): 258–269.
Published: 01 April 1949
... best of all, seeming to take their minds off the poem, the poet, and the teacher. But now, after all these years of bumbling around in the twilight kingdom of textual explication, we are going back, not as rested and well-browned, perhaps, as Thurber s botany professor, but eager and willing to explain...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1980) 79 (1): 61–74.
Published: 01 January 1980
..., and the pub lic s disenchantment with American colleges and universities to bring it to the surface in our day. Having painted a gloomy picture, I must hasten to assert that I am not James Thurber s barefooted, night-shirted get-ready man. A 70 The South Atlantic Quarterly time of crisis can also be a time...