HUMOR SCHOLARSHIP ON THEORY AND EPISTEMOLOGY

(revised Jan. 1992)

Note:See also "Anthropology," "Linguistics," "Philosophy," "Psychology"

• Berlyne Daniel E. "Humor and Its Kin." The Psychology of Humor. Eds. Jeffrey Goldstein and Paul McGhee. No: Academic Press, 1972, 43-60.
• Bouissac, Paul. "From Joseph Grimaldi to Charlie Cairoli: A Semiotic Approach to Humour." It's a Funny Thing, Humour. Eds. Antony Chapman and Hugh Foot. NY: Pergamon, 1977, 115-18.
• Byrne, D., J. Terrill, and P. McReynolds. "Incongruency as a Predictor of Response to Humor." Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 62.2 (1961): 435-38.
• hapman, A. J., and H. C. Foot, eds. Humor and Laughter: Theory. Research and Applications. NY: Wiley and Sons, 1976.
• Charney, Maurice. Comedy. High and Low. NY: Oxford Univ Press, 1978.
• Clark, Michael. "Humor and Incongruity." The Philosophy of Laughter and Humor. Albany, NY: SUNY, 1987, 139-55.
• Collins, R. G. "In Search of Humor." Thalia 1.1 (1978): 3-8.
• Deckers, Lambert, and Robert Thayr Buttram. "Humor as a Response to Incongruities within or between Schemata." Humor: International Journal of Humor Research 3.1 (1990): 53-64.
• Durant, John, and Jonathan Miller, eds. Laughing Matters: A Serious Look at Humour. London: Longman. 1988.
• Eastman, Max. Enjoyment of Laughter. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1936.
• Farb, P. "Speaking Seriously about Humor." The Massachusetts Review 17 (1983): 760-76.
• Feinberg, Leonard. The Secret of Humor. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 1978.
• Feinberg, Leonard. "The Secret of Humor." Maledicta: The International Journal of Verbal Aggression 2 (1978): 87-110.
• Fleet, F. R. A Theory of Wit and Humour. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat, 1890.
• Freud, Sigmund. "Humor." International Journal of Psychoanalysis 9 (1928): 1-6.
• Gale, Anthony. "Approaches to the Study of Humour: Discussion." It's a Funny Thing, Humour. Eds. Antony Chapman and Hugh Foot. NY: Pergamon. 1977, 123-26
• Goldstein, Jeffrey H. "Theoretical Notes on Humor." Journal of Communication 26 (1976): 104-112.
• Goldstein, Jeffrey H., and Paul E. McGhee. "An Annotated Bibliography of Published Papers on Humor in the Research Literature and an Analysis of Trends: 1900-1971." The Psychology of Humor. NY: Academic Press, 1972, 263-84.
• Goldstein, Jeffrey H., Paul E. McGhee, Jean R. Smith, Antony J. Chapman, and Hugh C. Foot. "Humour, Laughter and Comedy: A Bibliography of Empirical and NonEmpirical Analyses in the English Language." It's a Funny Thing, Humour. Eds. Antony Chapman and Hugh Foot. NY: Pergamon, 1977, 469-503.
• Holman, William R. Catalog of the Schmulowitz Collection of Wit and Humour, and Supplement 1. San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Public Library, 1976.
• Keith-Spiegel, Patricia C. "Eight Humor Theories." Comedy Techniques for Writers and Performers. Ed. Melvin Helitzer. Athens, OH: Lawhead Press, 1984, 17-22. LaFave, L, J. Haddad, and W. A. Maesen. "Superiority, Enhanced Self-esteem, and Perceived Incongruity Humor Theory." Humor and Laughter: Theory. Research and Applications. Eds. A. J. Chapman and H. C. Foot. NY: Wiley and Sons, 1976, 63-91.
• McFadden, George. Discovering the Comic. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ Press, 1982.
• MacHovec, Frank J. Humor: Theory, History, Applications. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1988.
• Martin, Mike W. "Humor and Aesthetic Enjoyment of Incongruities." The Philosophy of Laughter and Humor. Ed. John Morreall. Albany, NY: SUNY, 1987, 172-86.
• Mintz, Lawrence E., ed. Humor in America: A Research Guide to Genres and Topics. New York: Greenwood, 1988.
• Morreall, John. "Enjoying Incongruity." Humor: International Journal of Humor Research 2.1 (1989): 1-18.
• Morreall, John. "Funny Ha-Ha, Funny Strange, and Other Reactions to Incongruity." The Philosophy of Laughter and Humor. Ed. John Morreall. Albany, NY: SUNY, 1987, 188-207.
• Nerhardt, Goran. "Incongruity and Funniness: Towards a New Descriptive Model." Humor and Laughter: Theory. Research and Applications. Eds. A. J. Chapman and H. C. Foot. NY: Wiley and Sons, 1976, 55-62.
• Nerhardt, F. K. Goran. "Operationalization of Incongruity in Humour Research: A Critique and Suggestions." It's a Funny Thing, Humour. Eds. Antony Chapman and Hugh Foot. NY: Pergamon, 1977, 47-52.
• Nelson, Roy Paul. "Fourteen Varieties of Humor." Comedy Techniques for Writers and Performers. Ed. Melvin Helitzer. Athens, OH: Lawhead Press, 1984. 65-69.
• Nilsen, Don L. F. "Incongruity, Surprise, Tension, and Relief: Four Salient Features Associated with Humor." Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor 9.2 (1990): 22-27.
• Nilsen, Don L. F., and George A. Test. "Scholarly Humor Magazines." American Humor Magazines and Comic Periodicals. Ed. David E. E. Sloane. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987, 541-47.
• Paulson, Ronald, ed. Satire: Modern Essays in Criticism. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1971.
• Pollio, Howard R. "Notes Toward a Field Theory of Humor." Handbook of Humor Research. Volume 1. Eds. Paul McGhee and Jeffrey Goldstein. NY: SpringerVerlag, 1983, 213-230.
• Potter, Stephen. Sense of Humour. NY: Holt, 1954.
• Rich, Susanna Lippoczy. "Ridicule and Gut Reactions: Some Problems with Henri Bergson's Laughter." Humor: International Journal of Humor Research 2.3 (1989): 257-64.
• Raskin, Victor. Semantic Mechanisms of Humor. Dordrecht, Netherlands: D. Reidel, 1985.
• Rothbart, Mary K. "Incongruity, Problem-Solving and Laughter." Humor and Laughter: Theory. Research and Applications. Eds. A. J. Chapman and H. C. Foot. NY: Wiley and Sons, 1976, 37-54.
• Rothbart, Mary K., and Diane Plen. "Elephants and Marshmallows: A Theoretical Synthesis of Incongruity - Resolution and Arousal Theories of Humour." It's a Funny Thing, Humour. Eds. Antony Chapman and Hugh Foot. NY: Pergamon, 1977, 37-40.
• Simon, Richard Keller. The Labyrinth of the Comic: Theory and Practice from Fielding to Freud. Tallahassee, FL: Florida State Univ Press, 1985.
• Sypher, Wylie, ed. Comedy. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 1956.
• Tanner, Stephen L. "E. B. White and the Theory of Humor." Humor: International Journal of Humor Research 2.1 (1989): 43-54.
• Tavernier-Courbin, Jacqueline. "Humor is a Serious Matter." Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor 8.2 (1985): 13-20.
• Trachtenberg, Stanley. "Humor Criticism. n Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volume 11: American Humorists. 1800-1950. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1982, 681-82.
• Wasson, M. "What is Humor?" Forum 76 (1926): 425-29.
• White, E. B. "Some Remarks on Humor." The Comic in Theory and Practice. Eds. J. J. Enck, E. T. Forter, and A. Whilley. NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1960: 102.
• Zillman, D., and J. Bryant. "Misattribution Theory of Tendentious Humor." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 16 (1980): 146-60.
• Zillman, D., and J. R. Cantor. "A Disposition Theory of Humor and Mirth." Humor and Laughter: Theory. Research and Applications. Eds. A. J. Chapman and H. C. Foot. London: Wiley, 1976, 93-116.