Studies in American Humor

New Series 3, No. 4 (1997)

 

Contents

Essays
The Remarkably Constant Reader: Dorothy Parker as Book Reviewer
          Nancy Walker
1
An Aesthetic of Anomaly: Edward Taylor's "Preface" to His
"Gods Determinations," My Mother and the Trolley, and
Some Thoughts on Involuntary Comedy
          Renée Ashley
15
The Motif of the Flattened Corpse: Mark Twain
Max Adeler, and the Tall Tale Tradition
          Horst H. Kruse
47
Life's Rich Pageant: The Education of August Feldner
in Mark Twain's No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger
          Joseph Csicsila
54
The Iowa Years of The Works of Mark Twain: A Reminiscence
          John C. Gerber
 
68
Note
Mark Twain Greets 1907
          Kevin J. Hayes
 
88
Reviews
Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer
and the American Self
, by Bruce Michelson
          Review by John Bird
94
Laughing Matter: An Essay on the Comic, by Marcel Gutwirth
          Review by Craig E. Bertolet
99
Sut Lovingood's Nat'ral Born Yarnspinner:
Essays on George Washington Harris
, James E. Caron, ed.
          Review by Harry McBrayer Bayne
104
Pryor Convictions and Other Life Sentences, by Richard Pryor
          Review by Siva Vaidhyanathan
108
The Best of Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin's Sayings and Wisecracks, by Kin Hubbard
          Review by M, Thomas Inge
113

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