Studies in American Humor

New Series 3, no. 5 (1998)

 

Contents

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

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