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