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INDEXES:
General Index
wit & humor
quotations
reviews
analysis:
novels
stories
poems
plays
films
KEY TERMS
irony
metaphor
symbol
archetype
allegory
obj. correlative
iceberg principle
dissociation
individuation
puritan
pastoral
transcendental
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Angell, Barbara, “Ulabel Lume” (c.1990): parody of Poe
Bankhead, Tallulah (1902-1968), politically incorrect quotations
Barlow, Joel, humor from “The Hasty Pudding” (1796)
Benchley, Robert (1889-1945), witty quotations
Berra, Yogi (1925- ), wacky quotations: unintentional humor
Berry, D. C., “Godiva” (c.2009): parody of Sylvia Plath
Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914?), quotations: bitter wit
from “Our Tales of Sentiment” (c.1900): parody of popular fiction
Billings, Josh (1818-1885), humorous deadpan quotations
Black Elk, humor from Black Elk Speaks (1932)
Brackenridge, Hugh H., from Modern Chivalry (1792-1815): satire
Bradford, William, humor from Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647 (1642)
Butler, Judith, first prize for bad writing (1998): unintentional humor
Carlisle, Andrea, “Emily Dickinson’s To-Do List” (1996): humor
Chesterton (English), G. K., “After Walt Whitman” (c.1894-1936): parody
Clark, John Abbot, “The Love Song of F. Scott Fitzgerald” (c.1955): parody of T. S. Eliot
Collins, Billy, “Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes” (1998): humor
Cope, Wendy (English), “Waste Land Limericks” (1986): parody of T. S. Eliot
Crace, John (English), “The Crying of Lot 49” (2008): parody of Thomas Pynchon
Crane, Stephen, “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” (1898): analysis of humor
cummings, e. e., “nobody loses all the time” (1926): humor
Cunningham, J. V. (1911-1985), witty quotations in verse
Dacey, Philip, “Amherst with Fries” (1999): humorous homage to Dickinson
Davis, H. L., from Honey in the Horn (1935): frontier humor
DeLillo, Don, from White Noise (1985): satire of decadent higher education
DeVries, Peter (1910-1993), witty quotations
Dickenson, Emily (1830-1886), witty quotations
Drew, George, “Apparently Someone in the Department” (2004): satire of Political Correctness (PC)
Dunbar, Paul, “Theology” (1899): humor
Embry, Mead (pseudonym), “Me Studies” (2013): satire of narcissistic PC professors
Faulkner, William, humor from The Sound and the Fury (1929)
from As I Lay Dying (1930)
from “Red Leaves” (1930)
from “A Justice” (1931)
from The Hamlet (1940)
23 parodies of Faulkner
Fifield, A. J., rejection letter (c.1920s): parody of Gertrude Stein
Franklin, Benjamin, wit from The Silence Dogood Papers (1722)
“Model of a letter of recommendation of a person you are unacquainted with” (1777)
from The Autobiography (1789): humor
“Epitaph for Himself”: wit
Freeman, Mary Wilkins, “A Village Singer” (1891): analysis of humor
Frost, Robert, “Departmental” (1949): satirical fable of bureaucracy
Goldwyn, Samuel (1879-1974), quotations: unintentional humor
Gordon, Carolyn (1895-1981), Wit & Humor
Hardwick, Elizabeth, witty & humorous quotations
Hall, Donald, “The Impossible Marriage” (1986): of Dickinson & Whitman
Harte, Bret, “Muck-a-Muck” (1867): parody of Cooper
“Tennessee’s Partner” (1870): analysis of humor
Hemingway, Ernest, humor from The Sun Also Rises (1926)
23 parodies of Hemingway
Henry, O., “Blue Blotch of Cowardice” (1986): parody of Stephen Crane
Hoffenstein, Samuel, “Miss Millay Says Something Too” (1928): parody
Hollister, Michael, “Jonathan Edwards” (2004): fictional comic biopic
“Pinchy Ciphering”: satire of Thomas Pynchon (2009)
“Barthelbe Brothers Mortuary”: satire of Donald & Frederick Barthelme (2009)
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894), witty quotations
from “The Deacon’s Masterpiece” (1858): satire of collapsing Calvinism
Houghton, Firman, “Mr. Frost Goes South to Boston” (1961): parody
Irving, Washington, from A History of New York (1809): humor
Irving, John, from The World According to Garp (1978): satire of radical Feminism
James, Clive (Australian), from “Robert Lowell’s Notebook” (1986): parody
“Richard Wilbur’s Faberge Egg Factory” (1986): parody
James, Henry, “Portrait of a Bluestocking,” from The Bostonians (1886): satire of radical Feminism
5 parodies of James
Joyce, Joyce (Irish), “The Waste Land” (1925): parody of T. S. Eliot
Kennedy, X. J., “Emily Dickinson Leaves a Message to the World, Now That Her Homestead in Amherst Has an Answering Machine” (1992)
King, Stoddard, “Poem for Benjamin Franklin’s Birthday” (1926): wit
Knox, Ronald, “Battology” (1927): parody of Gertrude Stein
Koch, Kenneth, “Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams” (2005): parody
Lang, Andrew (Scot), “Brahma” (c.1864-1912): parody of Emerson
Lewis, Sinclair, Speech by George F. Babbitt to Zenith Real Estate Board, from Babbitt (1922): satire
“Virga Vay & Allan Cedar” (1945), text: satire
Lincoln, Abraham, self-deprecating humor (c.1860)
Lowell, James Russell, “Margaret Fuller as Minerva” (1848): satire
Luce, Clare Boothe, quotations
Lummis, C. F., “A Poe-em of Passion” (c.1882): parody of Poe
McCarthy, Mary, witty & humorous quotations
McComb, Jack F., “The RPM” (1973): parody of Ken Kesey
McGinley, Phyllis, “The Theology of Jonathan Edwards” (1957): wit
Melville, Herman, humor from Moby-Dick (1851)
Mencken, H. L. (1880-1956), witty quotations
Morley, Christopher, “Epitaph for Any New Yorker” (1920): wit
Nash, Ogden, humorous quotations in verse
“Kindly Unhitch That Star, Buddy” (1933)
“Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man” (1934)
“I Never Even Suggested It” (1940)
“Golly, How Truth Will Out” (1940)
“The Purist” (1938)
National Association of Scholars “Trigger Warning” contest (2014): satire of Political Correctness
Nemerov, Howard, “Santa Claus” (1960): satire
Norris, Frank, “The Green Stone of Unrest”: parody of Stephen Crane
O’Connor, Flannery, 52 witty and humorous quotations
“A Late Encounter with the Enemy” (1953): analysis of humor by 9 critics
“Revelation” (1964), text: humor
“Revelation”: analysis of humor by 18 critics
Parker, Dorothy (1893-1967), witty quotations
Paterson, Andrea, “Because I Could Not Dump” (1981): parody of Dickinson
Paulson, A. B., from “University Life” (1997): satire of Political Correctness
Perelman, SJ quotations
Poe, Edgar Allan, from “Never Bet the Devil Your Head” (1841): satire of Emerson
Porter, Katherine Anne, witty and humorous quotations
“Variation 1001: To the Foolish Virgins Who Aren’t Gathering Roses” (1922): parody
“The Martyr” (1923): analysis of humor
“A Day's Work” (1940): analysis of humor
wit and humor from Ship of Fools (1962): erotic combat
Proudfit, David Law, “Prehistoric Smith” (c.1897): humor
Pynchon, Thomas, from The Crying of Lot 49 (1966): humor
Reider, Curtis H., “Stein and Hemingway and Joyce” (c.1930s): humor
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, “Miniver Cheevy” (1910): analysis of humor
“Mr. Flood’s Party” (1920): analysis of humor
Rogers, Will (1879-1935), humorous quotations
Sewall, Samuel, humor from Diary (1720)
Simpson, Louis, “Squeal” (1957): parody of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” (1955)
Stafford, Jean witty and humorous quotations
Stegner, Wallace, humor from All the Little Live Things (1967)
Steinem, Gloria, “What It Would Be Like If Women Win” (1970): unintentional humor
Strong, George A., “What Hiawatha Probably Did” (1856): parody of Longfellow
Sullivan, Frank R. “Life Is a Bowl of Eugene O’Neills” (1931): satire
Thurber, James (1894-1961), humorous quotations
“The Owl Who Was God” (1940): fable
Toole, John Kennedy, humor from A Confederacy of Dunces (1969)
Twain, Mark, 750 witty quotations
humor from Huckleberry Finn (1884)
“Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec’d,” from Huck: parody
ironic response to censorship of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
from “English as She Is Taught” (1887): students answer questions
“Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses” (1895): satire
“The Late Benjamin Franklin” (c.1898): satire
Updike, John, “On the Sidewalk” (1959): parody of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road (1957)
“Miss Moore at Assembly” (1993): parody of Marianne Moore
West, Nathanel, from The Day of the Locust (1939): satire of Hollywood
Wharton, Edith, “Henry James Asking Directions” (1915): humor
Whitman, Walt, humor from “Song of Myself” (1855)
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