Educators are not alone in perennially seeking the best leadership practices and applying them to their own leadership behavior. What constitutes effective leadership seems to be on the minds of peopl
Debatable Humor focuses on understanding the behavior of individual candidates within the context of political debates, and uses an evolutionary psychology perspective to understand the roots of this
This book examines the role of humor in modern American politics. Written by a wide range of authors from the fields of political science and communication, this book is organized according to two gen
Looking closely at black (not Black) humor in American author Carver's (1938-88) work, Zhou (American fiction and American studies, Guangdong U. of Foreign Studies) argues that strategies of black hum
In Minstrelsy and Murder, Andrew Silver locates the foundation of the South’s dark humor in the great and violent cultural upheavals of the nineteenth century. Examining the connection between comic v
Why do people tell dirty jokes?And what is it about a joke's dirtiness that makes it funny?G. Legman was perhaps the foremost scholar of the dirty joke, and as legions of humor writers and comedians
Armed with jokes, puns, and cartoons, Norwegians tried to keep their spirits high and foster the Resistance by poking fun at the occupying Germans during World War II. Despite
Presents and seeks to explain the variety of humor in democratic politics. The humor ranges from the bawdy political comedies of Aristophanes in ancient Athens to the journalistic satires of our daily
In contrast to the popular cliche of the "stoic Indian," humor has always been important in Native North American cultures. Recent Native literature testifies to the centrality of this tradition. Yet
The phenomenal success of Laughter in Appalachia, Loyal Jones' and Billy Edd Wheeler's first collection of humor, says something about the importance of humor in our lives, and the talent Jones and Wh
• This comprehensive text covers all the traditional topics in a first-semester course.• Divided into 67 short sections, this book makes the topics easy to digest. Students regularly get positive rein
In the mid-seventies, both gender studies and humor studies emerged as new disciplines, with scholars from various fields undertaking research in these areas. The first publications that emerged in th
Responding to a renewed interest in Hoffman's casually violent, cautionary tales, Chalou (education, U. of Maine Presque Isle) considers the socio-historic context in which the book was written and ma
Samuel L. Clemens lost the 1882 lawsuit declaring his exclusive right to use "Mark Twain" as a commercial trademark, but he succeeded in the marketplace, where synergy among his comic journalism, live
Drawing on history, psychology, folklore, linguistics, anthropology, and the arts, this book challenges "wooden Indian" stereotypes to redefine negative attitudes and humorless approaches to Native Am
