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Product Description: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

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9780815402954 | Cooper Square Pub, June 1, 1923, cover price $78.00 | About this edition: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.

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Product Description: Art Of James Thurber, The, by Tobias, Richard C.

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9780821400586 | Ohio Univ Pr, June 1, 1970, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: Art Of James Thurber, The, by Tobias, Richard C.

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Product Description: Book by Farley-Hills, David

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9780874715026 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, November 1, 1974, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Book by Farley-Hills, David

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Product Description: The contributors provide a coherent view of the comic forms of the Middle Ages. Chapters by Louise George Clubb, Marga Contino Jones, Elaine Fantham, Thomas J. Garbaty, Peter V. Marinelli, Guy Mermier, Roy J. Pearcy, Howard H. Schless, Lorraine Kochardske Stock, Ian Thomson.

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9780806114385 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, June 1, 1977, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: The contributors provide a coherent view of the comic forms of the Middle Ages.

By Maurice Charney (editor)

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9780931196003 | New York Literary Forum, June 1, 1978, cover price $15.00

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9780195024302 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 1978, cover price $12.95 | also contains The Rainbow Fairies

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9780820405384 | 2 edition (Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 1, 2005), cover price $34.95

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9780060413705 | 2 sub edition (Harpercollins College Div, December 1, 1980), cover price $23.10

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Product Description: A superb critical study of tragedy and comedy from their sources, masks, meanings is examined by New York Times drama critic, Walter Kerr.

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9780306802492 | Da Capo Pr, August 1, 1985, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A superb critical study of tragedy and comedy from their sources, masks, meanings is examined by New York Times drama critic, Walter Kerr.

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The famous writer and comedian shares his insights into the world of professional comedy and analyzes the different types of humor, showing how each can be developed by anyone

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9780070011991 | McGraw-Hill, January 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The famous writer and comedian shares his insights into the world of professional comedy and analyzes the different types of humor, showing how each can be developed by anyone

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9781573922067 | Prometheus Books, April 1, 1998, cover price $23.99 | About this edition: The famous writer and comedian shares his insights into the world of professional comedy and analyzes the different types of humor, showing how each can be developed by anyone
9780070012172 | Reprint edition (McGraw-Hill, June 1, 1988), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: The famous writer and comedian shares his insights into the world of professional comedy and analyzes the different types of humor, showing how each can be developed by anyone

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Product Description: This volume is about puppetry, an expression of popular and folk culture which is extremely widespread around the world and yet has attracted relatively little scholarly attention. Puppetry, which is intended for audiences of adults as well as children, is a form of communication and entertainment and an esthetic and artistic creation...read more
By Dina Sherzer (editor) and Joel Sherzer (editor)

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9780879724122 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, December 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This volume is about puppetry, an expression of popular and folk culture which is extremely widespread around the world and yet has attracted relatively little scholarly attention.

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Product Description: This volume is about puppetry, an expression of popular and folk culture which is extremely widespread around the world and yet has attracted relatively little scholarly attention. Puppetry, which is intended for audiences of adults as well as children, is a form of communication and entertainment and an esthetic and artistic creation...read more
By Dina Sherzer (editor) and Joel Sherzer (editor)

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9780879724139 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, December 1, 1987, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This volume is about puppetry, an expression of popular and folk culture which is extremely widespread around the world and yet has attracted relatively little scholarly attention.

Product Description: Why do we find certain people and certain situations funny? Why do we laugh? Why do we pay people to make us laugh? In short, what is humour for? These are some of the questions dealt with in this book, which is based on a series of lectures given under the Presidency of Dr Jonathan Miller at the 1987 Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science...read more

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9780470211854 | Longman Sc & Tech, January 1, 1989, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Why do we find certain people and certain situations funny?

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9780820404592, titled "The Gentleman Is a Tramp: Charlie Chaplin's Comedy" | Peter Lang Pub Inc, March 1, 1989, cover price $52.95

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Product Description: This work explores the relations between Shakespeare's comedies and their theatrical audience and attempts to demonstrate that laughter, pain, and wonder are the primary responses invited by comedies. Also explored are numerous examples of ways that comedies may be most effectively staged...read more

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9780874133882 | Univ of Delaware Pr, November 1, 1990, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: This work explores the relations between Shakespeare's comedies and their theatrical audience and attempts to demonstrate that laughter, pain, and wonder are the primary responses invited by comedies.

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Product Description: The nature of comedy has interested many thinkers, from Plato to Freud, but film comedy has not received much theoretical attention in recent years. The essays in Comedy/Cinema/Theory use a range of critical and theoretical approaches to explore this curious and fascinating subject...read more
By Andrew Horton (editor)

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9780520069978 | Univ of California Pr, July 1, 1991, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: The nature of comedy has interested many thinkers, from Plato to Freud, but film comedy has not received much theoretical attention in recent years.

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9780520070400 | Univ of California Pr, July 1, 1991, cover price $30.95

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Product Description: This book examines three different comical forms: humor, irony, and jokes from the philosophical and the ethical points of view. The theme connects these forms in their linguistic expression but distinguishes them by pointing out the differences in their social function...read more

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9780820414812 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, September 1, 1991, cover price $51.95 | About this edition: This book examines three different comical forms: humor, irony, and jokes from the philosophical and the ethical points of view.

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Product Description: To be human is to live with comedy and laughter. This book is at once a serious guide to that form of human incongruity we call humor and an entertaining em­bodiment of humor itself. Designed to cross disciplinary boundaries, this "handbook of humor" directs itself to the sense and nonsense of humor in contem­porary individual and social life...read more

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9781560000013 | Transaction Pub, June 1, 1992, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: To be human is to live with comedy and laughter.

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Product Description: John Lahr is one of the most celebrated critics of the performing arts. Winner of Britain's 1992 Roger Machell Award for the best writing about public performance, Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilisation is an insider's account of a great clown and a great act...read more

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9780374134563 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 1992, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Journeys backstage with Barry Humphries to watch the clown transform himself into Dame Edna Everage, the weird and wonderful housewife-superstar whose comedy act reigns supreme in England

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9780756766207 | Diane Pub Co, March 1, 2000, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: John Lahr is one of the most celebrated critics of the performing arts.

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The famous writer and comedian shares his insights into the world of professional comedy and analyzes the different types of humor, showing how each can be developed by anyone

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9780879757922 | Prometheus Books, September 1, 1992, cover price $33.98 | About this edition: The famous writer and comedian shares his insights into the world of professional comedy and analyzes the different types of humor, showing how each can be developed by anyone

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Product Description: The problem of the comical is one of the most interesting issues in aesthetics. Its significance extends well beyond the sphere of aesthetic studies and has at­ tracted the attention of the scholars working in other fields such as the theorists and historians of particular art forms, sociologists, psychologists, as well as anthropologists, ethnographers and the theorists of education...read more

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9780792321033 | Kluwer Academic Pub, January 1, 1993, cover price $249.00 | About this edition: The problem of the comical is one of the most interesting issues in aesthetics.

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Product Description: Why do we laugh? Do we really want to know why? We are torn between desire to understand the joyous human response of laughter and reluctance to expose the secret of our spontaneity to the rigors of intellectualizing, the labors of analysis...read more

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9780801427831 | Cornell Univ Pr, April 1, 1993, cover price $44.50 | About this edition: Why do we laugh?

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