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Humor: A Reader for Writers

paperbackDecember 1, 2014
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ISBN-13: 9780199362684 ISBN-10: 0199362688
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Binding
paperback
Published
December 1, 2014
Weight
0.7 lbs
Dimensions
1.50×14.00×20.80 cm

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Humor: A Reader for Writers by Volk Miller, Kathleen. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780199362684.

Read. Write. Oxford. From Jerry Seinfelds legendary standup to Kristen Wiigs sidesplitting impersonations, Humor: A Reader for Writers explores the key patterns and features within numerous comedic sources in order to show how jokes work. This survey looks at comedy in a variety of genres including popular media, academic essays, personal narratives, fiction, and poetry. Developed for the freshman composition course, Humor: A Reader for Writers includes an interdisciplinary mix of public, academic, and cultural reading selections, providing students with the rhetorical knowledge and compositional skills required to participate effectively in discussions about humor. Humor: A Reader for Writers is part of a series of brief single-topic readers from Oxford University Press designed for todays college writing courses. Each reader in this series approaches a topic of contemporary conversation from multiple perspectives.