| Essays |
|
Leslie Marmon Silko's
Comic "World of the Different":
Almanac of the Dead as Cross-Cultural Trickster Discourse
Elizabeth
McNeil |
1 |
Adventurers and Tourists
in Mark Twain's A Tramp Abroad
Jeffrey
A. Melton |
34 |
The Americanizing Humor
of Louis Adamic's Laughing in the Jungle
Dan
Shiffman |
48 |
Horse Sense in Roughing
It
Dennis
Eddings |
64 |
Liberating Figures in
Toni Cade Bambara's Gorilla, My Love
Mary
Comfort |
76 |
"Is There Anything
Funny in There?": A Helping Hand
Tom
Quirk
|
97 |
| Reviews |
|
Mark Twain: A Study
of the Short Fiction, by Tom Quirk
Review
by Bruce Michelson |
100 |
Laughter's Gentle
Soul: The Life of Robert Benchley, by Billy Altman
Review
by Wes D. Gehring |
103 |
Humor and Revelation
in American Literature:
The Puritan Connection, by Pascal Covici, Jr.
Review
by David B. Kesterson |
107 |
Mark Twain,
by Peter Messent
Review
by Joseph B. McCullough |
111 |
The Comedian as Confidence
Man: Studies in Irony Fatigue, by Will Kaufman
Review
by Jeffrey A. Melton |
114 |
Necessary Madness:
The Humor of Domesticity in
Nineteenth-Century American Literature, by Gregg Camfield
Review
by Joseph Mills |
119 |
Odd Leaves from the
Life of a Louisiana Swamp Doctor, Henry Clay Lewis, ed.
Review
by Henry B. Wonham |
122 |