Humour : its theory and technique, with examples and samples : a book of discovery / by Stephen Leacock.
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London :
John Lane, The Bodley Head,
1935.
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Table of Contents:
- Why laugh?: an analysis of humour
- Fun with words: humour in the use and misuse of language
- Parasitic humour: parody, burlesque and mistranslation
- Technique of the greater humorists: Charles Dickens and Mark Twain
- Comic and super-comic verse
- An appended sample
- Story-tellers and story-killers
- National characteristics: Mr. Punch and his cousins
- Humour through the ages
- This very minute
- Epilogue: from the ridiculous to the sublime.