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Southern Frontier Humor
Author | : Edward J. Piacentino |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2013-04-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1617037680 |
Since its inception in the early 1830s, southern frontier humor (also known as the humor of the Old Southwest) has had enduring appeal. The onset of the new millennium precipitated an impressive rejuvenation of scholarly interest. Beyond Southern Frontier Humor: Prospects and Possibilities represents the next step in this revival, providing a series of essays with fresh perspectives and contexts. First the book shows the importance of Henry Junius Nott, a writer virtually unknown and forgotten who mined many of the principal subjects, themes, tropes, and character types associated with southern frontier humor, followed by an essay addressing how this humor genre and its ideological impact helped to stimulate a national cultural revolution. Several essays focus on the genre's legacy to the post-Civil War era, exploring intersections between southern frontier humor and southern local color writers--Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Chesnutt, and Sherwood Bonner. Mark Twain's African American dialect piece "A True Story," though employing some of the conventions of southern frontier humor, is reexamined as a transitional text, showing his shift to broader concerns, particularly in race portraiture. Essays also examine the evolution of the trickster from the Jack Tales to Hooper's Simon Suggs to similar mountebanks in novels of John Kennedy Toole, Mark Childress, and Clyde Edgerton and transnational contexts, the latter exploring parallels between southern frontier humor and the Jamaican Anansi tales. Finally, the genre is situated contextually, using contemporary critical discourses, which are applied to G. W. Harris's Sut Lovingood and to various frontier hunting stories.
Encyclopedia of American Humorists
Author | : Steven H. Gale |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2016-04-14 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1317362276 |
First published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the past, treated as inferior to British literature, there has always been a large popular audience for the genre, which this book shows. The figures with entries in this encyclopedia not only amuse in their writing, but also aim to enlighten- setting out to expose the foibles and foolishness of society and the individuals who compose it. It is the manner in which these authors try to accomplish this end that determines whether they appear in the volume. Indeed, the book will demonstrate that the best humor has at its base, a ready understanding of human nature.
Encyclopedia of American Humorists
Author | : Steven H. Gale |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1324 |
Release | : 2016-04-14 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1317362268 |
First published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the past, treated as inferior to British literature, there has always been a large popular audience for the genre, which this book shows. The figures with entries in this encyclopedia not only amuse in their writing, but also aim to enlighten- setting out to expose the foibles and foolishness of society and the individuals who compose it. It is the manner in which these authors try to accomplish this end that determines whether they appear in the volume. Indeed, the book will demonstrate that the best humor has at its base, a ready understanding of human nature.
The Frontier Humorist
Author | : M. Thomas Inge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : American wit and humor |
ISBN | : |
American Humorists
Author | : Thorp |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1452909350 |
American Humorists - American Writers 42 was first published in 1964. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
Mark Twain, American Humorist
Author | : Tracy Wuster |
Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2017-12-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0826274110 |
Mark Twain, American Humorist examines the ways that Mark Twain’s reputation developed at home and abroad in the period between 1865 and 1882, years in which he went from a regional humorist to national and international fame. In the late 1860s, Mark Twain became the exemplar of a school of humor that was thought to be uniquely American. As he moved into more respectable venues in the 1870s, especially through the promotion of William Dean Howells in the Atlantic Monthly, Mark Twain muddied the hierarchical distinctions between class-appropriate leisure and burgeoning forms of mass entertainment, between uplifting humor and debased laughter, and between the literature of high culture and the passing whim of the merely popular.
The Frontier Roots of American Realism
Author | : Gretchen Martin |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780820488110 |
In the antebellum South, the «plain folk» maintained social norms, ideals of honor, justice, gender, and liberty that were significantly distinct from town and planter gentility, and the humorists of the Old South captured this important distinction. Southwest humor flourished from the 1830s through the Civil War and this book provides a thorough investigation of the unique and innovative contributions of these humorists to the field of American literary realism, such as use of vernacular authenticity, complex character portraits, and the narrative technique of disclosure. Thus, when the Southwest humorists «tell about the South, » they provide an endlessly entertaining and realistic representation of the vast complexities of the antebellum South and illustrate that the roots of literary realism were sown and nurtured on the southwestern frontier.
William Gilmore Simms and the American Frontier
Author | : John Caldwell Guilds |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780820318875 |
William Gilmore Simms (1807-1870), the antebellum South's foremost author and cultural critic, was the first advocate of regionalism in the creation of national literature. This collection of essays emphasizes his portrayal of America's westward migration.
Encyclopedia of the Essay
Author | : Tracy Chevalier |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1032 |
Release | : 2012-10-12 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1135314101 |
This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies