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Nodal Humor In Comic Narrative: A Semantic Analysis Of Two Stories By Twain And Wodehouse, Christopher Holcomb Jan 1992

Nodal Humor In Comic Narrative: A Semantic Analysis Of Two Stories By Twain And Wodehouse, Christopher Holcomb

Faculty Publications

This paper shows that a semantic theory of humor offers, despite assertions to the contrary, an adequate description of how particular instances of humor are linked to the narrative in which they appear. After Victor Raskin's script-based semantic theory of humor is summarized, and adopted as the starting point of the analysis in this paper, the humor in two short stories is described in terms of their semantic properties. In this paper, humor is said to reside not simply in jokes but in joke-like constructions, for which the term "nodal points of humor" is used. These nodes can be identified …


A Genevan's Journey To The Hebrides In 1807: An Anti-Johnsonian Venture, Hans Utz Jan 1992

A Genevan's Journey To The Hebrides In 1807: An Anti-Johnsonian Venture, Hans Utz

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


Hugh Macdiarmid And Thomas Hardy: Local Realities And The "Revolt Against All Accepted Things", Katherine K. Maynard Jan 1992

Hugh Macdiarmid And Thomas Hardy: Local Realities And The "Revolt Against All Accepted Things", Katherine K. Maynard

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


Hogg, Wordsworth, And Gothic Autobiography, Rebecca A. Pope Jan 1992

Hogg, Wordsworth, And Gothic Autobiography, Rebecca A. Pope

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews Jan 1992

Book Reviews

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


February 6, 1991 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina Feb 1991

February 6, 1991 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.


Variation And Variety In Middle Scots Reconsidered: A Test Study Of The Helsinki Corpus Of Older Scots, Anneli Meurman-Solin Jan 1991

Variation And Variety In Middle Scots Reconsidered: A Test Study Of The Helsinki Corpus Of Older Scots, Anneli Meurman-Solin

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


Front Matter Jan 1991

Front Matter

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


Progress In Older Scots Philology, A. J. Aitken Jan 1991

Progress In Older Scots Philology, A. J. Aitken

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


The Anglicization Of Scots In Seventeenth-Century Ulster, Michael Montgomery Jan 1991

The Anglicization Of Scots In Seventeenth-Century Ulster, Michael Montgomery

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


Scots And Scotticisms: Language And Ideology, Richard W. Bailey Jan 1991

Scots And Scotticisms: Language And Ideology, Richard W. Bailey

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


The German Reputation Of The Makars, Peter Zenzinger Jan 1991

The German Reputation Of The Makars, Peter Zenzinger

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


Historical Literature Of Early Scotland, Benjamin T. Hudson Jan 1991

Historical Literature Of Early Scotland, Benjamin T. Hudson

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


Anglo-Scottish Literary Relations: Problems And Possibilities, A. A. Macdonald Jan 1991

Anglo-Scottish Literary Relations: Problems And Possibilities, A. A. Macdonald

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


Translation And Transcreation In The Castalian Period, J. Derrick Mcclure Jan 1991

Translation And Transcreation In The Castalian Period, J. Derrick Mcclure

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


Luve, Lichery And Evill Women: The Satiric Tradition In The Bannatyne Manuscript, Evelyn S. Newlyn Jan 1991

Luve, Lichery And Evill Women: The Satiric Tradition In The Bannatyne Manuscript, Evelyn S. Newlyn

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


Lexical And Syntactic Cohesion In Dunbar, Pamela K. Shaffer Jan 1991

Lexical And Syntactic Cohesion In Dunbar, Pamela K. Shaffer

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


The Complaynt Of Scotland: Some Textlinguistic Remark, Clausdirk Pollner Jan 1991

The Complaynt Of Scotland: Some Textlinguistic Remark, Clausdirk Pollner

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


A Postmodem Look At A Medieval Poet: The Case Of William Dunbar, Joanne S. Norman Jan 1991

A Postmodem Look At A Medieval Poet: The Case Of William Dunbar, Joanne S. Norman

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


Bakhtin's Literary Camivalesque And Dunbar's "Fastemis Evin In Hell", Deanna Delmar Evans Jan 1991

Bakhtin's Literary Camivalesque And Dunbar's "Fastemis Evin In Hell", Deanna Delmar Evans

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


The Love Lyrics Of Alexander Scott, Th. Van Heijnsbergen Jan 1991

The Love Lyrics Of Alexander Scott, Th. Van Heijnsbergen

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


Contributors Jan 1991

Contributors

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


"A New Maid Channoun"? Redefining The Canonical In Medieval And Renaissance Scottish Literature, R. J. Lyall Jan 1991

"A New Maid Channoun"? Redefining The Canonical In Medieval And Renaissance Scottish Literature, R. J. Lyall

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


October 3, 1990 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina Oct 1990

October 3, 1990 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.


Secular Humanism And Education, Martha M. Mccarthy Oct 1990

Secular Humanism And Education, Martha M. Mccarthy

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.


Blind Hary's Myth Of Blood: The Ideological Closure Of The Wallace, R. James Goldstein Jan 1990

Blind Hary's Myth Of Blood: The Ideological Closure Of The Wallace, R. James Goldstein

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


Scottish Poetry 1987-1989, Roderick Watson Jan 1990

Scottish Poetry 1987-1989, Roderick Watson

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


"Using Rhetoric Differently: An Advanced Writing Course From Historical Materials", Patrick G. Scott Nov 1989

"Using Rhetoric Differently: An Advanced Writing Course From Historical Materials", Patrick G. Scott

Faculty Publications

Describes an advanced writing course based on a survey of historical rhetoric, from classical to twentieth-century rhetoric, linked to writing assignments using selected aspects of each period's rhetoric that reflect some current writing exigency. Originally presented to the Advanced Writing section at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, November 1989.


March 1, 1989 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina Mar 1989

March 1, 1989 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.


February 1, 1989 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina Feb 1989

February 1, 1989 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.