Kategoria BISAC: Humor >> General

Mimicry of and ribaldry in American literature from its beginnings to the Lost (and Found) Generation. E.B. White, H.G. Wells, Stephen Crane, Henry David Thoreau and Corey Ford are among the contributors.

Redressing the Balance: American Women's Literary Humor from Colonial Times to the 1980s gives new focus to the wide field of humor is the first comprehensive anthology of American women's humorous writing. The editors have included works by such well-known writers as Dorothy Parker, Phyllis McGinley, and Gertrude Stein as well as by once-popular but forgotten authors such as Frances Whitcher, Carolyn Wells, Alice Duer Miller, and Florence Guy Seabury.

Indeed, one of the purposes of the anthology is to reclaim the tradition of women's humor in America, from the witty...

The superhero has been the staple of the modern comic book since the late 1930s. The phenomenally successful movies Superman and Batman have made these two comic book superheroes as familiar worldwide as any characters ever created. Yet to relatively few aficionados are they known at first hand from their appearances in comic books.

Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology explores the origins of the superhero by documenting how heroes emerged from the comic book genre and are defined both by its history and by audience expectations.

To show some of the most influential...

The denizens of Dogpatch were destined for their place outside the frames of comic strips. They were popular subjects on stage and screen and eventually...

Is owning a ranch owning the american dream? Or is it owning an overdue mortgage? It's all how you look at it. Now, from one of our best-selling authors comes a book that gives you a true look at the west, no matter what your opinion. Read it one way, and benefits of being a cowboy shine through the settin' sun. Turn it upside-down and backwards (or was it that way to begin with?), and you'll wonder why the sun even bothered to rise.

America's favorite crypto-zoological hominid is hilariously recast as the modern-day everyman, struggling with eating disorders, casual cannibalism, pop culture, and philosophical quandaries ("Me once believe in good. Now, no. World go shit, just like Bigfoot screenwriting career").