5.0116 Canada Humor Conference (1/68)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 4 Jun 91 17:01:02 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0116. Tuesday, 4 Jun 1991.
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 91 07:01:32 MST
From: "don l. f. nilsen" <ATDFN@ASUACAD>
Subject: CANADA HUMOR CONFERENCE AUTHORS
There will be at least seventeed authors of humor-related scholarly
books at the Ninth International Humor Conference at Brock University in
the Niagara Falls area of Canada. These authors, and the books they
have written include:
Richard Cracroft, BYU, WASHINGTON IRVING: THE WESTERN WORKS
Christie Davies, Univ of Reading, ETHNIC HUMOR AROUND THE WORLD
Seymour and Rhoda Fisher, SUNY-Syracuse, PRETEND THE WORLD IS FUNNY
AND FOREVER: A PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF COMEDIANS, CLOWNS,
AND ACTORS
William Fry, Stanford Univ, SWEET MADNESS: A STUDY OF HUMOR
William Fry and Melanie Allen, MAKE 'EM LAUGH: LIFE STUDIES OF COMEDY
WRITERS
William Fry and Waleed Salameh, HANDBOOK OF HUMOR AND PSYCHOTHERAPY:
ADVANCES IN THE CLINICAL USE OF HUMOR
Wes Gehring, Ball State Univ, THE MARX BROTHERS: A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wes Gehring, SCREWBALL COMEDY: A GENRE OF MADCAP ROMANCE
Jeffrey Goldstein, Temple Univ, and Paul McGhee, Eds. THE PSYCHOLOGY
OF HUMOR: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES AND EMPIRICAL ISSUES
Paul Grawe, Winona State Univ, COMEDY IN SPACE, TIME AND THE IMAGINATION
Charles Gruner, Univ of Georgia, UNDERSTANDING LAUGHTER: THE WORKINGS
OF WIT AND HUMOR
Deborah Hill, Renaissance, HUMOR IN THE CLASSROOM: A HANDBOOK FOR
TEACHERS AND OTHER ENTERTAINERS
Richard Lederer, St. Paul's High School, ANGUISHED ENGLISH, CRAZY ENGLISH,
and GET THEE TO A PUNNERY
Paul McGhee, and Jeffrey Goldstein, Eds. HANDBOOK OF HUMOR RESEARCH, 2 Vols
John Morreall, Univ of Rochester, THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAUGHTER AND HUMOR
John Morreall, TAKING LAUGHTER SERIOUSLY
Don and Alleen Nilsen, ASU, LANGUAGE PLAY: AN INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
Victor Raskin, Purdue Univ, SEMANTIC MECHANISMS OF HUMOR
Elaine Safer, Univ of Delaware, THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN COMIC EPIC:
THE NOVELS OF BARTH, PYNCHON, GADDIS, AND KESEY
Charles Schutz, Albion College, POLITICAL HUMOR FROM ARISTOPHANES TO SAM ERVIN
Helen and Jerry Weiss, Bantam Publishers, THE AMERICAN WAY OF LAUGHING and
MORE TALES OUT OF SCHOOL
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TO OBTAIN INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONFERENCE, CONTACT:
Ann Marie Guilmette, Dept of Recreation and Leisure Studies, Brock
University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2S 3A1.
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Don L. F. Nilsen, <ATDFN@ASUACAD> (602) 965-7592
Executive Secretary
International Society for Humor Studies
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-0302