Sut Lovingood's Yarns
Author | : George Washington Harris |
Publisher | : New Haven : College & University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Humor |
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Author | : George Washington Harris |
Publisher | : New Haven : College & University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Humor |
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Author | : George Washington Harris |
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Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1867 |
Genre | : American wit and humor |
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Author | : George Washington Harris |
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Release | : 2003 |
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Author | : James E. Caron |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2021-04-16 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 0271090332 |
Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, John Oliver, and Jimmy Kimmel—these comedians are household names whose satirical takes on politics, the news, and current events receive some of the highest ratings on television. In this book, James E. Caron examines these and other satirists through the lenses of humor studies, cultural theory, and rhetorical and social philosophy, arriving at a new definition of the comic art form. Tracing the history of modern satire from its roots in the Enlightenment values of rational debate, evidence, facts, accountability, and transparency, Caron identifies a new genre: “truthiness satire.” He shows how satirists such as Colbert, Bee, Oliver, and Kimmel—along with writers like Charles Pierce and Jack Shafer—rely on shared values and on the postmodern aesthetics of irony and affect to foster engagement within the comic public sphere that satire creates. Using case studies of bits, parodies, and routines, Caron reveals a remarkable process: when evidence-based news reporting collides with a discursive space asserting alternative facts, the satiric laughter that erupts can move the audience toward reflection and possibly even action as the body politic in the public sphere. With rigor, humor, and insight, Caron shows that truthiness satire pushes back against fake news and biased reporting and that the satirist today is at heart a citizen, albeit a seemingly silly one. This book will appeal to anyone interested in and concerned about public discourse in the current era, especially researchers in media studies, communication studies, political science, and literary and cultural studies.
Author | : Jerry Wayne Williamson |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780807845035 |
The stereotypical hillbilly figure in popular culture provokes a range of responses, from bemused affection for Ma and Pa Kettle to outright fear of the mountain men in Deliverance. In Hillbillyland, J. W. Williamson investigates why hillbilly images are so pervasive in our culture and what purposes they serve. He has mined more than 800 movies, from early nickelodeon one-reelers to contemporary films such as Thelma and Louise and Raising Arizona, for representations of hillbillies in their recurring roles as symbolic 'cultural others.' Williamson's hillbillies live not only in the hills of the South but anywhere on the rough edge of society. And they are not just men; women can be hillbillies, too. According to Williamson, mainstream America responds to hillbillies because they embody our fears and hopes and a romantic vision of the past. They are clowns, children, free spirits, or wild people through whom we live vicariously while being reassured about our own standing in society.
Author | : M. Thomas Inge |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2021-10-21 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 0813185459 |
The humor of the Old South—tales, almanac entries, turf reports, historical sketches, gentlemen's essays on outdoor sports, profiles of local characters—flourished between 1830 and 1860. The genre's popularity and influence can be traced in the works of major southern writers such as William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Harry Crews, as well as in contemporary popular culture focusing on the rural South. This collection of essays includes some of the past twenty five years' best writing on the subject, as well as ten new works bringing fresh insights and original approaches to the subject. A number of the essays focus on well known humorists such as Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson Jones Hooper, William Tappan Thompson, and George Washington Harris, all of whom have long been recognized as key figures in Southwestern humor. Other chapters examine the origins of this early humor, in particular selected poems of William Henry Timrod and Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," which anticipate the subject matter, character types, structural elements, and motifs that would become part of the Southwestern tradition. Renditions of "Sleepy Hollow" were later echoed in sketches by William Tappan Thompson, Joseph Beckman Cobb, Orlando Benedict Mayer, Francis James Robinson, and William Gilmore Simms. Several essays also explore antebellum southern humor in the context of race and gender. This literary legacy left an indelible mark on the works of later writers such as Mark Twain and William Faulkner, whose works in a comic vein reflect affinities and connections to the rich lode of materials initially popularized by the Southwestern humorists.
Author | : James Edward Caron |
Publisher | : University Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Throughout the 1850s Harris created a variety of adventures for Sut that were extremely popular and often reprinted. Many of these Sut stories were included in his only book collection (Sut Lovingood. Yarns Spun by a "Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool"), which was first published in 1867 and remained continuously in print until 1925.
Author | : Carolyn Schmidt Brown |
Publisher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780870496271 |
To Carolyn Brown s mind, the tall tale is not necessarily an account of the adventures of a larger-than-life hero, nor is it just a humorous first-person narrative exaggerated to outlandish proportions. It is as well an interaction between teller and audience a game played at the hazy border between the credible and the incredible, a challenge and an entertainment at the same time. The tall tale is also a social statement that identifies and binds a folk group by flaunting the peculiar knowledge and experiences of group members, and it is a tool for coping with a stressful or even chaotic world, for conquering life s problems by laughing at them.
Author | : Peter Conn |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1989-08-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521303736 |
Professor Conn summarises the distinctive achievements of the American literary heritage from early 1600's to late 1980's.
Author | : William Priestley Black |
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Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1965 |
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