Studies in American Humor

New Series 3, No. 3 (1996)

 

Contents

"Xingu": Edith Wharton Instructs Literary Critics
        Helen Killoran
1
"I like a woman to be a woman": Theorizing Gender in the
Humor of Stowe and Greene
          Karen Kilcup Oakes
14
Comic Rhetoric in Raising Arizona
          Jeff Evans
39
The Art of Self-Deprecation in American Literary Humor
          Stephen L. Tanner
54
Parodying the Theater of Religion in the
Fantasy of Fritz Leiber
          Bennett Lovett-Graff
66
Tradition and the Individual Late night Humorist:
The Trouble Begins After Your Local News
          Sanford Pinsker
82
The "Funny Republican": P.J. O'Rourke and the
Graying of Boomer Humor
          Thomas Grant
 
102
Reviews
Charles Heber Clark: A Family Memoir, David Ketterer, ed.
          Review by David E.E. Sloane
119
Robert Benchley: An Annotated Bibliography, by Gordon Ernst, Jr.
          Review by Eric Solomon
123

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