Description:
Examines the work of satirists through the lenses of humor studies, cultural theory, and rhetorical and social philosophy, arriving at a new definition of the comic art form.
Brief description: James E. Caron is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. He is the author of Mark Twain, Unsanctified Newspaper Reporter and coeditor of Refocusing Chaplin: A Screen Icon Through Critical Lenses and Sut Lovingood's Nat'ral Born Yarnspinner: Essays on George Washington Harris.
Review Quotes:
"Those engaged in research and thinking on "the comic" will find this book a valuable aid."
--J. C. Jaffe, Choice