Humor: Its Theory and Technique, with Examples and Samples; a Book of Discovery, Volumen10Dodd, Mead, 1935 - 268 páginas |
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... spelling was to America . Here the humor exaltation was a sort of vindictive triumph over the spelling book , the revered guide and the dreaded authority of the little red schoolhouse . A whole generation of Artemus Wards traded on bad ...
... spelling was to America . Here the humor exaltation was a sort of vindictive triumph over the spelling book , the revered guide and the dreaded authority of the little red schoolhouse . A whole generation of Artemus Wards traded on bad ...
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... spelling - that is to say , incorrect spelling not sanctioned by the spelling book - was the most obvious and popular mode of comic wit . It is interesting to see how this came about and how it fits into the theory of humor . In earlier ...
... spelling - that is to say , incorrect spelling not sanctioned by the spelling book - was the most obvious and popular mode of comic wit . It is interesting to see how this came about and how it fits into the theory of humor . In earlier ...
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... spelling bees , " were at once an education and a diversion . " Abe " Lincoln could " spell down " any other adult in the settlement . Hence the very eminence of spelling rendered it all the better mark for artful degradation . Bad ...
... spelling bees , " were at once an education and a diversion . " Abe " Lincoln could " spell down " any other adult in the settlement . Hence the very eminence of spelling rendered it all the better mark for artful degradation . Bad ...
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CHAPTER | 1 |
FUN WITH WORDS | 16 |
PARODY BURLESQUE AND MISTRANSLATION | 42 |
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