Free Download Rachel Trousdale, "Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry"
English | ISBN: 0192895710 | 2022 | 288 pages | EPUB, PDF | 584 KB + 2 MB
Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry explores how American poets of the last hundred years have used laughter to create communities of readers and writers. For poets slightly outside of the literary or social mainstream, humor encourages mutual understanding and empathic insight among artist, audience, and subject. As a result, laughter helps poets reframe and reject literary, political, and discursive hierarchies-whether to overturn those hierarchies, or to place themselves at the top.

Free Download Political Humor Worldwide: The Cultural Context of Political Comedy, Satire, and Parody
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819984890 | 470 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 11 MB
This collection of original chapters reflects the increasing interest over the past few decades in the relationship between political humor (as a distinct form of political discourse) and a country's culture: Beliefs, values, norms, institutions, and processes that are affected, shaped by, and related to historical experiences, socialization processes, social structure, religion, the economic system, and majority/minority relations. Written by contributors from various fields of study - political science, communication, linguistics, sociology, culture studies, and political psychology - the book looks at the central role played by "culture" in shaping and affecting the sundry aspects of political humor, including satire and parody. The chapters, focusing on diverse countries such as the USA, UK, Greece, Philippines, Israel, Poland, Italy, and Spain, as well as ethnic groups, offer a comprehensive overview of political humor as used by public figures, including politicians, artists, performers, as well as comedians, talk shows hosts and the general public. By presenting fresh perspectives on the relationship between culture and political humor as employed during political debates in parliament, in media interviews and shows, on the internet and in art, the book opens up new avenues for discussion regarding the factors that shape political humor across the globe in a variety of political and media systems.

Free Download And Here's the Kicker: Conversations With 21 Top Humor Writers on Their Craft By Mike Sacks
2009 | 337 Pages | ISBN: 158297988X | EPUB | 2 MB
Every great joke has a punch line, and every great humor writer has an arsenal of experiences, anecdotes, and obsessions that were the inspiration for that humor. In fact, those who make a career out of entertaining strangers with words are a notoriously intelligent and quirky lot. And boy, do they have some stories. In this entertaining and inspirational book, you'll hear from 21 top humor writers as they discuss the comedy-writing process, their influences, their likes and dislikes, and their experiences in the industry.

Free Download Leonard J. Greenspoon, "Jews and Humor "
English | ISBN: 1557535973 | 2011 | 236 pages | EPUB | 398 KB
Jews and humor is, for most people, a natural and felicitous collocation. In spite of, or perhaps because of, a history of crises and living on the edge, Jews have often created or resorted to humor. But what is humor? And what makes certain types, instances, or performances of humor "Jewish"? These are among the myriad queries addressed by the fourteen authors whose essays are collected in this volume. And, thankfully, their observations, always apt and often witty, are expressed with a lightness of style and a depth of analysis that are appropriate to the many topics they cover. The scholars who contributed to this collection allow readers both to discern the common features that make up "Jewish humor" and to delight in the individualism and eccentricities of the many figures whose lives and accomplishments are narrated here. Because these essays are written in a clear, jargon-free style, they will appeal to everyone―even those who don't usually crack a smile!

Free Download Gordon Leidner, "Lincoln's Gift: How Humor Shaped Lincoln's Life and Legacy"
English | 2015 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 149260965X | EPUB | 3,4 mb
"Simply the best book that has been published on this great president's humor and stories...Everyone interested in Abraham Lincoln will want to read this."―William C. Harris, author of Lincoln and the Border States

Free Download The Python Jokebook: Programming with a Twist of Humor (For Absolute Beginners)
by Atharva Sasane
English | 16 May 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0C5K6NY8Z | 50 Pages | PDF | 9.56 MB

Free Download Sparking Creativity: How Play and Humor Fuel Innovation and Design
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032232153 | 295 Pages | PDF (True) | 48 MB
Blending popular culture and design theory, framed by a decade of scholarly research, this book highlights how play and humor fuel innovation. Now, more than ever, we are in need of creative solutions to global problems, but creative skills and abilities decline over time without intervention and practice.

Humor Books Collection (3 books) (03 25 2023) | 42.32 MB
English | 26 Pages

Title: Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle, Vol. 1
Author: Hiromu and raemz
Year: 2019

Black Humor and the White Terror
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032124016 | 283 Pages | PDF (True) | 19 MB
This book examines political humor as a reaction to the lost war, the post-war chaos, and antisemitic violence in Hungary between 1918 and 1922. While there is an increased body of literature on Jewish humor as a form of resistance and a means of resilience during the Holocaust, only a handful of studies have addressed Jewish humor as a reaction to physical attacks and increased discrimination in Europe during and after the First World War. The majority of studies have approached the issue of Jewish humor from an anthropological, cultural, or linguistic perspective; they have been interested in the humor of lower- or lower-middle-class Jews in the East European shtetles before 1914.

Harold Bloom, "Dark Humor"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1604134402 | ASIN: B005HUUXX2 | PDF | pages: 290 | 2.0 mb
The technique of dark humor seeks to create comedy through the use of satirical wit and grotesque situations. This thematic technique can be found in A Clockwork Orange, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," A Modest Proposal, "The Love Song of J. AlfredPrufrock," White Noise,"The Yellow Wallpaper," and many others,as examined by this new volume.