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Defining New Yorker humor / Judith Yaross Lee.
LIBRA Special PS438 .L44 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Judith Yaross, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925).
- History.
- American wit and humor.
- New York (State)--New York.
- American wit and humor--New York (State)--New York--History and criticism.
- American wit and humor--20th century--History and criticism.
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- United States.
- New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)--History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 427 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2000]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Why a Scholarly History of the New Yorker? 3
- Chapter 1 Old and New, Borrowed and Blue: The New Yorker in Context 20
- Chapter 2 Comic Business: Humor and Criticism at the Office 64
- Chapter 3 "The Talk of the Town": The Merger of Verbal and Visual 108
- Chapter 4 Comic Art: More Than Meets the Eye 156
- Chapter 5 Two into One, and Then There Were None 203
- Chapter 6 Comic Storytelling 243
- Chapter 7 Ironic I's Are Smiling 282
- Chapter 8 That Other New Yorker Humor: Comic Verse 324.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 392-399) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1578061970
- 1578061989
- OCLC:
- 42454334
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