American Humor: A Study of the National Character - Brossura

Rourke, Constance

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0813008379 ISBN 13: 9780813008370

Casa editrice: Univ Pr of Florida, 1986

Riassunto

Stepping out of the darkness, the American emerges upon the stage of history as a new character, as puzzling to himself 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.

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Book by Rourke Constance

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ Pr of Florida
• Data di pubblicazione: 1986
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0813008379
• ISBN 13: 9780813008370
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 334
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile