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Composing Humor: Twain, Thurber, and You (Domains in Language and Composition)
Composing Humor Twain Thurber and You - Domains in Language and Composition Author:Jean C. Sisk, Jean Saunders A discussion of techniques and devices in writing humor. — Includes: — Comedy, wit, humor, realism, romance, tragedy - — Jokes, jests, tall tales, way-out whoppers, peripatetic prevarication, going one better, the practical joke - — Geniuses for minor difficulties, life's little absurdities, humor of habit, compulsive characters, human ma... more »chines, humor as criticism, aiming the barbs, satire and irony, masking the tears, poetic paradies, scholarly mistreatments.« less