Overview :Stepping out of the darkness, the American emerges upon the stage of history as a new character, as puzzling to himself as to others. Americ... Read More
Overview :"It is Johnson's gift that he can make his subjects human and fallible enough that we would...recognize them instantly, while also illuminat... Read More
Overview :From the acclaimed bestselling author of Sushi for Beginners and Angels comes a collection of personal essays on shopping, writing, moviemak... Read More
Overview :Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Je... Read More
Overview :Winner of the 2016 Religious Communication Association Book of the Year AwardIn God Mocks, Terry Lindvall ventures into the muddy and danger... Read More
Overview :To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used... Read More
Overview :Forty of the greatest fictional festivities as seen through the eyes of the world's greatest writers.People love to party. And writers love ... Read More
Overview :"The Clouds" is a timeless Greek comedy written by Aristophanes, renowned for its sharp wit, satire, and philosophical inquiry. Set in ancie... Read More
Overview :"Does anyone know how hard it is to be that funny? . . . Read her book reviews. Read them now and see how good they are." --Fran Lebowitz Wh... Read More
Overview :Era un hombre de rostro sereno que vest a infatigablemente traje y corbata. Su ceguera se apoyaba en un bast n pulsado por las manos de poet... Read More
Overview :In a study that explodes the assumption that early modern comic culture was created by men for men, Pamela Allen Brown shows that jest books... Read More
Overview :This tour de force by a master of experimental novels finds the author reflecting on her old age and its effects on her writing. As she refl... Read More
Overview :Gestes et opinions du docteur Faustroll (1898) d'Alfred Jarry finit par un calcul alg bro-g om trique des dimensions de la "surface de Dieu"... Read More
Overview :This study analyzes post-Romantic prose whose authors--in terms of race, gender, class, nationality, and more--occupy a range of subject-pos... Read More
Overview :Thomas Mann predicted that no manner or mode in literature would be so typical or so pervasive in the twentieth century as the grotesque. As... Read More
Overview :Did people really speak like Bertie Wooster? Who was the celebrated Maisie? What does a Jubilee watering trough look like? Where is Loose Ch... Read More
Overview :"Prepare to laugh out loud with this hilarious collection of funny stories!" From humiliating situations to zany excursions, these hilarious... Read More
Overview :What is satire? How can we define it? Is it a weapon for radical change or fundamentally conservative? Is satire funny or cruel? Does it alw... Read More
Overview :Comic Belles Lettres presents a significant rethinking of standard categories in scholarship on antebellum American humor--such as Old South... Read More