HUMOR SCHOLARSHIP ON GALLOWS. SICK, BLACK AND TRAGICOMIC HUMOR

(Revised January 1992)

• Bier, Jesse. "Sick Humor and the Function of Comedy." Comedy Techniques for Writers and Performers. Ed. Melvin Helitzer. Athens, OH: Lawhead Press, 1984. 49-53.
• Boyer, Jay. "The Schlemiezel: Black Humor and the Shtetle Tradition." Humor: International Journal of Humor Research 4.2 (1991): 165-76.
• Clark, John R. The Modern Satiric Grotesque. Lexington: Univ of Kentucky, 1991
• Clark, John R., and Anna Lydia Motto. "Funny Bones: The Deadly Laughter of the Grotesque." Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor 9.2 (1987): 24-31.
• Davis, Douglas M., ed. The World of Black Humor: An Introductory Anthology of Selections and Criticism. New York: Dutton, 1967.
• Dukore, Bernard Frank. Where Laughter Stops: Pinter's Tragicomedy. Columbia: Univ of Missouri Press, 1976.
• Dundes, Alan. Cracking Jokes: Studies of Sick Humor Cvcles and Stereotypes. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1987.
• Dundes, Alan, and Thomas Hauschild. "Auschwitz Jokes." Humor in Society: Resistance and Control. Eds. Chris Powell and George Paton. NY- St. Martin's, 1988, 56-66.
• Erickson, John D. "Surrealist Black Humor as Oppositional Discourse." Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Foreign Literatures 42 (1988): 198-213.
• Friedman, Bruce Jay, ed. Black Humor. NY: Bantam, 1965.
• Frohock, W. M. "The Edge of Laughter: Some Modern Fiction and the Grotesque." Veins of Humor. Ed. Harry Levin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1972, 243-54.
• Galloway, David. The Absurd Hero in American Fiction: Updike, Styron, Bellow, Salinger. 2nd ed. Austin: Univ of Texas Press, 1981.
• Harmon, William. "'Anti-Fiction' in American Humor." The Comic Imagination In American Literature. Ed. Louis D. Rubin, Jr. New Brunswlsk, NJ: Rutgers Univ Press, 1983, 373-84.
• Harris, Charles B. Contemporary American Novelists of the Absurd. New Haven, CT; College & University Press, 1971.
• Hartwig, H. Joan. Shakespeare's Tragicomic Vision. New Orleans: Louisiana State Univ Press, 1972.
• Hassan, Ihab. "Echoes of Dark Laughter: The Comic Sense in Contemporary American Fiction." Humor in America. Ed. Enid Veron. NY: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1976, 316-21.
• Hauck, Richard Boyd. A Cheerful Nihilism: Confidence and 'The Absurd' in American Humorous Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana Univ Press.
• Hayes, Harold. Smiling Through the Apocalypse: Esquire's History of the Sixties. NY: McCalls, 1969.
• Heller, Terry. "Notes on Technique in Black Humor." Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor 2.3 (1979-80): 15-21.
• Hill, Hamlin. "Black Humor and the Mass Audience." American Humor. Ed. O. M. Brack, Jr. Scottsdale, AZ: Arrete Press, 1977, 1-11.
• Janoff, Bruce. "Black Humor, Existentialism, and Absurdity: A Generic Confusion." The Arizona Quarterly 30.4 (1974): 293-304.
• Kauffman, J. "Gallows Humor and Jewish Humor: A Reading of 'The Dance of Genghis Cohn' by Romain Gary." Jewish Humor. Ed. Avner Ziv. Tel Aviv, Israel: Papyrus, 1986, 99-110.
• Keough, William. Punchlines: The Violence of American Humor. NY: Paragon House, 1966.
• Knott, Blanche. Truly Tasteless Jokes. NY: Ballantine, 1982.
• Legman, Gershon. Mark Twain's "The Mammoth Cod: An Address to the Stomach Club. n Santa Rosa, CA: Maledicta Press, 1976.
• Lindberg, Stanley. "One Alternative to Black Humor: The Satire of Jack Matthews." Contemporary Satire 1.1 (1974): 17-36.
• Little, Matthew. "As I Lay Dyiny and 'Dementia Praecox' Humor." Studies in American Humor 2.1 (April, 1975): 61-70.
• Lubow, Arthur. Screw You Humor." The New Republic 179.17 (1978): 18-22.
• Mahony, Patrick. Barbed Wit and Malicious Humor. NY: Citadel, 1956.
• Mandia, Patricia. "Chimerical Realities: Black Humor in The Mysterious Stranger," 106-17.
• Nelson, William. "The Comic Grotesque in Recent Fiction." Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor 5.2 (1983): 36-40.
• Olsen, Lance. Circus of the Mind in Motion: Postmodernism and the Comic Vision. Detroit: Wayne State Univ Press, 1990.
• Olsen, Lance. "Making Stew with What you Got: Postmodern Humor in Barth, Nabokov, and Everybody Else." Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor 10.1 (1988): 23-29.
• Oring, Elliot. "Jokes and the Discourse on Disaster." Journal of American Folklore 100 (1987): 276-286.
• Pazeriskis, John. "Kingsley Amis - the Dark Side." Studies in Contemporary Satire 4 (1977): 28-33.
• Pearce, Richard. "Nabokov's Black (Hole) Humor: Lolita and Pale Fire. Comic Relief: Humor in Contemporary American Literature. Ed. Sarah Blacher Cohen. Urbana: Univ of Illinois Press, 1979, 28-44.
• Pinsker, Sanford. "The Graying of Black Humor." Studies in the Twentieth Century 9 (1972): 15-33.
• Roback, Abraham. A Dictionary of International Slurs. Santa Rosa, CA: Maledicts Press, 1979.
• Schulz, Max F. Black Humor Fiction of the Sixties. Athens, OH: Ohio Univ Press, 1973.
• Schulz, Max F. "Toward a Definition of Black Humor." Comic Relief: Humor in Contemporary American Literature. Ed. Sarah Blacher Cohen. Urbana: Univ of Illinois Press, 1978, 14 27.
• Simons, Elizabeth Radin. "The NASA Joke Cycle: The Astronauts and the Teacher." Western Folklore 45 (1986): 261-77.
• Smyth, Willie. "Challenger Jokes and the Humor of Disaster." Western Folklore 45 (1986): 443-60.
• Thickett, Maude. Outrageously Offensive Jokes. NY: Pocket Books, 1983.
• Trachtenberg, Stanley. "Berger and Barth: The Comedy of Decomposition." Comic Relief: Humor in Contemporary American Literature. Ed. Sarah Blacher Cohen. Urbana: Univ of Illinois Press, 1979, 45-69.
• Tsur, Reuven. "Horror Jokes, Black Humor, and Cognitive Poetics." Humor: International Journal of Humor Research 2.3 (1989): 243-56.
• Weber, Brom. "The Mode of 'Black Humor.'" The Comic Imagination in American Literature. Ed. Louis D.Rubin Jr. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ Press, 1983, 361-71.
• Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. NY: New American Library, 1987.
• Winston, Mathew. "Humour Noir and Black Humor." Veins of Humor. Ed. Harry Levin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP: 1972, 269-84.
• Zillman, Dorf, and S. Holly Stocking. "Putdown Humor." Laughing Matter 226 (1981): 154-63.