1: Theoretical Concerns; 1: A Glossary of the Techniques of Humor: Morphology of the Joke-Tale; 2: Anatomy of a Joke; 2: Applications; 3: The Telephone Pole with the Braided Armpits: Ethnic and Racial Jokes and American Society; 4: "On Me You Can't Count": An Interpretation of a Jewish Joke with Relevance to the Jewish Question; 5: Jewish Fools; 6: Mickey Mouse and Krazy Kat: Of Mice and Men; 7: Comics and Popular Culture; 8: Mark Russell in Buffalo; 9: A Cool Million; 10: Twelfth Night; 11: Huckleberry Finn as a Novel of the Absurd; 12: Healing with Humor; 13: Comedy and Creation
Arthur Asa Berger
-This book belongs on the shelf of anyone who appreciates humor. It also belongs in the laboratories of psychological researchers investigating when and how we laugh.-
--T. Cameron Wild, Contemporary Psychology
-This is a significant book, and it will surely have a welcome place in any professional humor library.-
--Don L. F. Nilsen, Humor
"This book belongs on the shelf of anyone who appreciates humor. It also belongs in the laboratories of psychological researchers investigating when and how we laugh."
--T. Cameron Wild, Contemporary Psychology
"This is a significant book, and it will surely have a welcome place in any professional humor library."
--Don L. F. Nilsen, Humor
"This book belongs on the shelf of anyone who appreciates humor. It also belongs in the laboratories of psychological researchers investigating when and how we laugh." --T. Cameron Wild, Contemporary Psychology "This is a significant book, and it will surely have a welcome place in any professional humor library." --Don L. F. Nilsen, Humor
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