Amerikansk humor

Huvudgrupp 1

Primärtexter

8-10 av följande texter väljs av läraren.

• Bellow, Saul, Herzog, London, Penguin, 2001
• Brown, Rita Mae, Rubyfruit jungle, London, Vintage Books, 2015
• Díaz, Junot, The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao, London, Faber and Faber, 2008
• Ephron, Nora, Heartburn., London, Virago, 1996
• Faulkner, William, The reivers: a reminiscence, London, Vintage, 1996, c1996
• Fisher, Carrie, Postcards from the edge, [2003]
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The vegetable, or From president to postman, A new ed., New York, Scribner, 1976
• If I were a Man, Ingår i: The Yellow wallpaper and other writings, New York, N.Y., Bantam Classic, 2006
• Irving, Washington, Rip Van Winkle, Raleigh, N.C., Alex Catalogue, [199-?]
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The May-pole of Merry Mount, Charlottesville, Va., University of Virginia Library, 1996
• Homes, A. M., The end of Alice, London, Anchor, 1997
• Malamud, Bernard, The Jewbird, Ingår i: The complete stories, London, Vintage, 1998
• Morton, Thomas, New English Canaan or New Canaan: Containing an abstract of New England, composed in three bookes. The first booke setting forth the originall of the natives, their manners and customes, together with their tractable nature and love towards the English. The second booke setting forth the naturall indowments of the country, and what staple commodities it yealdeth. The third booke setting forth, what people are planted there, their prosperity, what remarkable accidents have happened since the first planting of it, together with their tenents and practise of their church. Written by Thomas Morton of Cliffords Inn gent, upon tenne yeares knowledge and experiment of the country., Printed at Amsterdam, By Iacob Frederick Stam, In the yeare 1637 (Utdrag läses)
• Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovič, Pnin, Ann Arbor, Mich., Ardis, 1983
• O'Connor, Flannery, Wise blood, Reiss., London, Faber and Faber, 1985
• Parker, Dorothy, Enough rope: poems, New York, Liveright, 1926, 23. pr. 1931
• Poe, Edgar Allan, Hop-frog, Charlottesville, Va., University of Virginia Library, [199-?]
• Pynchon, Thomas, Gravity's rainbow, New York, Penguin Books, 2006
• Roth, Philip, Portnoy's complaint, [New ed.], London, Vintage, 2005
• Roth, Philip., The breast., London, Vintage, 1995
• Stanley, Alessandra, Who Says Women Aren't Funny?, -, http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/04/funnygirls200804
• Toole, John Kennedy, A confederacy of dunces, London, Penguin, 2000
• Twain, Mark, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, [New ed.] Reissued., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008
• Twain, Mark, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Cavaleras County, Ingår i: The complete short stories of Mark Twain: Ed. with an intr. by Charles Neider, New York, Bantam Books, 1990
• Vonnegut, Kurt, Cat's cradle, London, Penguin, 2008
• Ward, Artemus, His book., New York, Carleton, 1867
• Welty, Eudora, The optimist's daughter, London, Virago, 1984

Franklin, Benjamin. Poor Richard's Almanac

Kemble Night, Sarah. The Journal of Madame Knight

Skibell, Joseph. A Curable Romantic

Susser, Gail. "Lesbian Potlucks through History"

Gilman, Tabitha. Female Quixotism

Warren, Mercy Otis. The Adulateur

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Kritiska verk

Läsanvisningar ges av läraren.

• Bachtin, Michail, Rabelais and his world, Cambridge, Mass., M.I.T.Press, 1968
• Beard, Mary, Laughter in ancient Rome: on joking, tickling, and cracking up, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2014
• Bergson, Henri, Laughter: an essay on the meaning of the comic, København, Green Integer, 1999
• Cohen, Ted, Jokes: philosophical thoughts on joking matters, 1999
• Freud, Sigmund, Jokes and their relation to the unconscious, [New ed.], Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1991
• Huizinga, Johan, Homo ludens: a study of the play-element in culture, London, Routledge, 1998
• Levin, Harry, The power of blackness: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, 1. paperback ed., Chicago, Ohio U.P., 1980
• Rourke, Constance, American humor: a study of the national character, Repr., New York, 1931, pr. 1953
• Sypher, Wylie, Comedy ..., Baltimore, Md, John Hopkins U.P., 1980

Boskin, Joseph. Humor and Social Change in Twentieth-Century America

Walker, Nancy A. What's so Funny: Humor in American Culture