Humor

Explores romantic comedy’s revitalizing response to shifting sexual and social mores of the past decade.

In this lively and fascinating analysis of humorists and their work, Will Kaufman breaks new ground with his irony fatigue theory.

Explores the proliferation of humor in recent cinema of the Middle East and its possible ramifications for cinematic representation, art, and politics.

A comprehensive look at the customary differences between humor in Japan and the West, providing cultural examples and illustrative terminology in the original Japanese.

Learn how to expand the humor in your imagination into the most fulfilling and fun-filled genres in creative writing—from comedy to a satirical essay to a joke monologue—with the help of Writing Humor, the first textbook of its kind for college students.

Humor in Borges studies the humor embedded in the fiction of the serious and metaphysical literary figure, Jorge Luis Borges.

Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing documents the thriving folklore tradition that circulates in the workplace.