Laughter Unlimited: Essays on Humor, Satire, and the Comic (Monatshefte Occasional Volumes)

Laughter Unlimited: Essays on Humor, Satire, and the Comic (Monatshefte Occasional Volumes)





Since Aristotle critics have struggled to distinguish between laughter in comedy and laughter in everyday life. In the theatre, distance breaks the aggressive spell of laughter, the audience laughs without hurting anyone, and laughter becomes an aesthetic experience. But comedy, more than tragedy, seems bound to the customs and social mores of the time that it satirizes: what is humorous to an audience in one society is no laughing matter in another. This book examines the shifting boundaries of comedy: in music, where it is elusive, or in dialect poetry where it may seem trivial; or in the laughter of the "other", as in Yiddish comic theatre or in Jewish mainstream comedy. Other essays treat comedy in the work of a single author or single tradition.









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Freshmen: Fiction, Fantasy, and Humor by Ninth Grade Writers (The American Teen Writer Series)





A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age in 1997. Features "Parade of Dragons" by Nicole Ball, winner of the Paul A. Witty Short Story Award, the highest story honor awarded by the IRA. Includes 13 stories, all indexed by genre--by topic, and for use as writing models.









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