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Ngugi Wa Thion'go: A Documentary Source Book, By Carol Sicherman, Patrick G. Scott
Ngugi Wa Thion'go: A Documentary Source Book, By Carol Sicherman, Patrick G. Scott
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A review of Ngugi wa Thion'go: A Documentary Source Book, by Carol Sicherman
A Checklist Of James Hogg Scholarship Since 1960, Patrick G. Scott
A Checklist Of James Hogg Scholarship Since 1960, Patrick G. Scott
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Lists with brief annotations scholarship and criticism, including book reviews, published between 1960 and 1991. Originally distributed as South Carolina Working Papers in Scottish Bibliography, no. 2 (1992).
Nodal Humor In Comic Narrative: A Semantic Analysis Of Two Stories By Twain And Wodehouse, Christopher Holcomb
Nodal Humor In Comic Narrative: A Semantic Analysis Of Two Stories By Twain And Wodehouse, Christopher Holcomb
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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 …