Category: Humor
Humorous riddles with comic illustrations help ESL students gain new insights into American language and culture. Each riddle is accompanied …
What do a demanding colony of porcupines, an upscale restaurant run by hyenas, and a famous medieval knight have in …
The book is intended to provide a definitive view of the field of humor research for both beginning and established …
Something Funny Happened at the Library: How to Create Humorous Programs for Children and Young Adults
DESCRIPTION: Current Topics in Membranes provides a systematic, comprehensive, and rigorous approach to specific topics relevant to the study of …
When I have a little money, I buy books. And if any is left, I buy food and clothing.–Desiderius ErasmusThose …
Though modern readers no longer believe in the four humors of Galenic naturalism—blood, choler, melancholy, and phlegm—early modern thought found …
The published life’s work of the founding father of German sociology is now being made available for international research and …
If, as some suggest, American literature began with Huckleberry Finn, then the humorists of the Old South surely helped us …
Training in public speaking is not a matter of externals–primarily; it is not a matter of imitation–fundamentally; it is not …
What is humor exactly? How do you use it to maximize learning? If it is so important, why is it …
Reassessing the meanings of ”black humor” and ”dark satire,” Laughing Fit to Kill illustrates how black comedians, writers, and artists …
If, as some suggest, American literature began with Huckleberry Finn, then the humorists of the Old South surely helped us …
Wrangling Women is an engrossing commentary on the way women use humor in their storytelling and in their working relationships …
Comic Relief: A Comprehensive Philosophy of Humor develops an inclusive theory that integrates psychological, aesthetic, and ethical issues relating to …
, first published in 1956, is a pioneering study by the versatile and prolific scholar Franz Rosenthal (19142003), who (having …
Humor is sometimes a serious business, especially the humor of Benjamin Franklin, a master at revealing the human condition through …
From the renowned comedian, creator, star and executive producer/multiple title-holder of Comedy Central’s Important Things with Demetri Martin comes a …
Research on humor is carried out in a number of areas in psychology, including the cognitive (What makes something funny?), …
The concept of ethnic, racial, and gender humor is as sensitive a subject today as it has ever been; yet …
This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to humor in interaction. It is a rich collection of essays by …
"If you are one of that benighted handful of people who isn’t wise to Charles Osgood’s incisive and humorous look …