New directions in American humor /
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
c1998.
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Table of Contents:
- "Change it! This sucks!" : Beavis and Butt-head, idiot savants of cultural criticism / Douglas Sun
- How MTV "re-butts" the satiric argument of Beavis and Butt-head / Gregg Camfield
- Now's the time : the Richard Pryor phenomenon and the triumph of Black culture / Siva Vaidhyanathan
- The comic Texan in film : a regional stereotype in the national imagination / Don Graham
- The "funny Republican" : P.J. O'Rourke and the graying of boomer humor / Thomas Grant
- The Mark Twain of baseball? : A proposal for humor research of turn-of-the-century American sportswriting / David G. Lott
- Humor high and low : an introduction / Steven H. Gale
- Talking back to the culture : contemporary women's comic art / Nancy A. Walker
- "Old maids" and wily "widders" : the humor of Ruth McEnery Stuart / Judy Sneller
- "Quite unclassifiable" : crossing genres, crossing genders in Twain and Greene / Karen L. Kilcup
- Making fun of the critics : Edith Wharton's anticipation of the postmodern academic romance / Michele S. Ware
- The Comstock matrix of Twain's humor / Lawrence I. Berkove
- Mark Twain's fingerprints in Pudd'nhead Wilson / Louis J. Budd
- Eddie didn't do stand-up : some keys to Poe's humor / David Tomlinson
- Mark Twain and the funny magic of the German language / Holger Kersten
- Huck Finn on his best behavior : the problem of translation / James R. Papp
- Linguistic affinities : translating Bryce Echenique's Lima humor for readers of English / Alita Kelley ; French and Spanish translations by Alita Kelley
- Teaching a text-based humor course : "You can't get there from here, stranger" / Donald Barlow Stauffer
- New directions in American humor : an afterword / David E.E. Sloane.