American humor

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"Stepping out of the darkness, the American emerges upon the stage of history as a new character, as puzzling to himself as to others. American Humor, Constance Rourke's pioneering "study of the national character," singles out the archetypal figures of the Yankee peddler, the backwoodsman, and the blackface minstrel to illuminate the fundamental role of popular culture in fashioning a distinctive American sensibility. A memorable performance in its own right: American Humor crackles with the jibes and jokes of generations while presenting a striking picture of a vagabond nation in perpetual self-pursuit. Davy Crockett and Henry James, Jim Crow and Emily Dickinson rub shoulders in a work that inspired such later critics as Pauline Kael and Lester Bangs and which still has much to say about the America of Bob Dylan and Thomas Pynchon, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush."--BOOK JACKET.

• American National characteristics
• American literature
• American wit and humor
• History and criticism
• National characteristics, American
• National characteristics, American, in literature
• Wit and humor
• Humor
• Humour américain
• Histoire et critique

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December 31, 1899

ACLS History E-Book Project · İngilizce · 256 sayfa
ISBN 9781597401159

1986

University Presses of Florida · İngilizce · 334 sayfa
ISBN 0813008379

2004

New York Review Books · İngilizce · 253 sayfa
ISBN 1590170792

September 1971

Harcourt · İngilizce · 324 sayfa
ISBN 9780156055901