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Volume 4, Issue 1
April 2018
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ISSN 0095-280X
EISSN 2333-9934
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The Editor's Drawers

Nervous Laughter: American Humor Studies in Dispiriting Times
Lawrence Howe
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ARTICLES

Don't Make Me Laugh!: Morality, Ethics, and the Laugh Track
Kenneth L. Brewer
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“For all their story sound, from a place as deep”: The Influence of Kurt Vonnegut's Humor on Anne Sexton's Transformations
Amy Carpenter
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Nothing Funny About Cancer: Laughing with Arthur Schopenhauer in Thom Jones's “I Want to Live”
Joseph Wagner
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Domestic Failure, Comic Pleasure: Phyllis Diller and the Feminist Potential of Failure, 1955–1969
Kathryn Kein
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Book Reviews

Joking Asides: The Theory, Analysis, and Aesthetics of Humor
Michael Dalebout
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Mark Twain at Home: How Family Shaped Twain's Fiction and Mark Twain and Youth: Studies in His Life and Writings
Heidi M. Hanrahan
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Precious Perversions: Humor, Homosexuality, and the Southern Literary Canon
Phillip Gordon
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Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction
Miriam Chirico
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Slapstick Modernism: Chaplin to Kerouac to Iggy Pop
David Gillota
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Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood
Ida Yalzadeh
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Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence
Rob King
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Reconstructing Strangelove: Inside Stanley Kubrick's “Nightmare Comedy.”
Calista McRae
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Humor and Satire on Contemporary Television: Animation and the American Joke
Peter C. Kunze
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God Mocks: A History of Religious Satire from the Hebrew Prophets to Stephen Colbert
Winifred Morgan
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