Humor Scholarship: A Research Bibliography

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The serious study of humor has burgeoned in the last two decades, spawning a wealth of publications touching upon an array of topics crossing national, cultural, and disciplinary lines. This research bibliography captures the vibrancy and significance of the field of humor studies while documenting its output. Organized into ten broad chapters reflecting types of humor and topics of humor research, it provides extensive bibliographies on forty-five fields of humor study, each introduced by an essay outlining trends and pointing to major findings. An appendix of humor research institutes, journals, scholars and academic programs as well as a subject and author index to the thousands of sources complete the volume. Intended largely for library use by scholars and students in humor studies, the volume's topical essays are valuable for text use in related courses; the work's extensive bibliographies will foster research in diverse fields with a focus on humor.

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.,."solid works, like Humor Scholarship and What's So Funny, can also play an important role in the more general acceptance of works on popular culture...Nilsen's solid research bibliography ....gets the series off to an excellent start."-Popular Culture In Libraries
...solid works, like Humor Scholarship and What's So Funny, can also play an important role in the more general acceptance of works on popular culture...Nilsen's solid research bibliography ....gets the series off to an excellent start.-Popular Culture In Libraries
Essays reveal a strong scholarly understanding and involvement with the expanding field of humor studies. As in Nilsen's previous volume, citations included are a highly selective choice of books, journal articles, and reference sources he feels will provide the best guidance to investigators new to humor studies and to teachers preparing courses. Chapters on national styles and ethnicity are especially interesting, providing sections on Asian, Jewish, Eastern European, and Russian as well as Western European and American humor.-Choice
..."solid works, like Humor Scholarship and What's So Funny, can also play an important role in the more general acceptance of works on popular culture...Nilsen's solid research bibliography ....gets the series off to an excellent start."-Popular Culture In Libraries
"Essays reveal a strong scholarly understanding and involvement with the expanding field of humor studies. As in Nilsen's previous volume, citations included are a highly selective choice of books, journal articles, and reference sources he feels will provide the best guidance to investigators new to humor studies and to teachers preparing courses. Chapters on national styles and ethnicity are especially interesting, providing sections on Asian, Jewish, Eastern European, and Russian as well as Western European and American humor."-Choice

Author Bio

DON L. F. NILSEN is Professor of English at Arizona State University and Executive Secretary and Newsletter Editor of the International Society for Humor Studies. He has published six books on linguistics and numerous articles in scholarly and literary journals on aspects of humor as well as linguistics.