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portada American Humor: A Study of the National Character (New York Review Books Classics)
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2004
Language
English
Pages
258
Format
Paperback
Weight
0.60
ISBN
9781590170793
ISBN13
9781590170793
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American Humor: A Study of the National Character (New York Review Books Classics)

Constance Rourke (Author) · New York Review Of Books · Paperback

American Humor: A Study of the National Character (New York Review Books Classics) - Constance Rourke

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Synopsis "American Humor: A Study of the National Character (New York Review Books Classics) "

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.

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