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1.
Dithers and Jitters
by Cornelia Otis Skinner. 170 pgs.
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Acknowledgment
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Dithers And Jitters
Business Party
Yoga Attempted
Pour Le Sport
The Importance Of Cocktails
It's A Wise Parent
Floral Piece
Long After Audubon
Party On Olympus
Bonny Boating Weather
Platform Performance
The Skin-Game
Vaulting Ambition
Allow Me, Madame
Ear, Nose And Throat
Heavenly Bodies
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American Women Playwrights, 1900-1950 (Part III "Cornelia Otis Skinner (1901-1979)")
by Yvonne Shafer. 548 pgs.
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Foreword by Wendy Wasserstein
Introduction
PART ONE
Rachel Crothers (1876?-1958)
Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)
Zoë Akins (1886-1958)
Edna Ferber (1885-1968)
Rose Franken (1895-1988)
Lillian Hellman (1905?-1984)
Summary
PART TWO
Opportunities for African-American Women Playwrights by Ted Shine
Clare Kummer (1873?-1958)
Josephine Preston Peabody (1874-1922)
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
Rida Johnson Young (18757?-1926)
Zona Gale (1874-1938)
Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880-1966)
Alice Gerstenberg (1885-4972)
Sophie Treadwell (1885?-1970)
Eulalie Spence (1894-1981)
Ruth Gordon (1895-1985)
Lula Vollmer (1898-1955)
May Miller (1899- )
Bella Spewack (1899-1990)
Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987)
Mary Coyle Chase (1907-1981)
Fay Kanin (1916- )
Summary
PART THREE
Martha Morton (1865?-1925)
Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)
Anita Loos (1893?-1981)
Dorothy Heyward (1890-1961)
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
Anne Nichols (1891-1966)
Mae West (1892?-1980)
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
Marita Bonner (1899-1971)
Maurine Watkins (1900-1968)
Cornelia Otis Skinner (1901-1979)
Elsa Shelley (1905?-1968?)
Carson Mccullers (1917-1967)
Summary
Conclusion
Appendix
Works Cited
Index
3.
The Comic in Theory & Practice (Cornelia Otis Skinner's "On Riding" begins on p. 128)
by John J. Enck. 340 pgs.
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Preface
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Part I: Theory
Humour
Poetics
Author's Preface to Joseph Andrews
The Difficulty of Defining Comedy
A Comparison Between Laughing and Sentimental Comedy
On Wit and Humour
On Simple and Sentimental Poetry
On the Essence of Laughter
The Expression of the Emotions In Man and Animals
An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit
Meredith on Comedy
Laughter
Laughter
Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious
Feeling and Form
Anatomy of Criticism
Verbal Behavior
Introduction to Joseph Andrews
Some Remarks on Humor
Notes on the Comic
The Thread of Laughter
Part II: Essays, Narratives, & Verse
My Finandal Career
On Riding
Showing Off
Dr. Arbuthnot's Academy
You Were Perfectly Fine
The Catbird Seat
Laura
Why I Live at the P.O.
A Reasonable Facsimile
A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
The Rape of the Lock
The Cock and the Fox or, The Tale of the Nun's Priest
The Frogs Asked for a King
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes
The Lemmings: a Philosophical Poem
Departmental or, the End of My Ant Jerry
Mehitabel Dances with Boreas
Macavity: the Mystery Cat
A Wooden Darning Egg
The Mad Gardener's Song
The Flea
Under Which Lyre
Part III: For Discussion & Themes
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American Literature in Parody: A Collection of Parody, Satire, and Literary Burlesque of American Writers Past and Present (Cornelia Otis Skinner's "For Whom the Gong Sounds" begins on p. 241)
by Robert P. Falk, Burges Green. 272 pgs.
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Introduction
Chapter One: Poor Richard in Our Time
Chapter Two: Latherstocking in Motley
Chapter Three: The Deflowering Of New England
Chapter Four: Transcendental Mystics And Bluestocking Reformers
Chapter Five: The Decline and Fall Of the House of Usher
Chapter Six: Grains of Sand In Leaves of Grass
Chapter Seven: A Few New Turns of the Screw
Chapter Eight: Tears and Laughter: The Reading Public
Chapter Nine: Vox Pop in the Forum
Chapter Ten: Some Cults and O-Cults In Verse
Chapter Eleven: The Lost (and Found) Generation
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America's 93 Greatest Living Authors Present This Is My Best: Over 150 Self-Chosen and Complete Masterpieces, Together with Their Reasons for Their Selections ("Cornelia Otis Skinner on Why She Selected the Body Beautiful" begins on p. 846)
by Whit W. Burnett. 1188 pgs.
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Foreword
I the Man's Story
Theodore Dreiser Why He Selected the Hand
Ernest Hemingway Why He Selected the Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
John Steinbeck the Leader of the People
Stephen Leacock Why He Selected My Remarkable Uncle
Conrad Aiken Why He Selected Strange Moonlight
Morley Callaghan Why He Selected Two Fishermen
Ii the American Dream
Archibald Macleish Why He Selected America Was Promises
Willa Cather Neighbour Rosicky
Sinclair Lewis Dinner with the Babbitts
James Truslow Adams Why He Selected the American Dream
Mark Van Doren Why He Selected America's Mythology
Dorothy Parker Why She Selected the Standard of Living
Wolcott Gibbs Why He Selected the Customer is Always Wrong
Iii A Goodly Heritage
EnÉt Why He Selected the Devil and Daniel Webster
Van Wyck Brooks Why He Selected Hawthorne in Salem
Mary Ellen Chase Why She Selected the Lord's Day in the Nineties
Robert Frost Why He Selected Sixteen Poems
Robert P. Tristram Coffin Why He Selected Maine is a Perpetual Poem
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Why She Selected the Night on the Cobble
Edmund Wilson Why He Selected the Old Stone House
Erskine Caldwell Why He Selected Country Full of Swedes
Henry Seidel Canby Why He Selected Home in the Nineties
John P. Marquand Why He Selected Last Days of a Bostonian
Ellen Glasgow Why She Selected the Deep Past
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Why She Selected Hyacinth Drift
Jesse Stuart Why He Selected Another April
Conrad Richter Why He Selected Lutie
William Allen White Why He Mary White
Iv the Jungle
James T. Farrell Why He Selected Studs
Richard Wright Why He Selected How "Bigger" Was Born
Elmer Rice Why He Selected the Adding Machine
E B. White Why He Selected Quo Vadimus?
Louis Adamic Why He Selected Girl on the Road
Langston Hughes Why He Selected Poems of American Negro Life
Maxwell Anderson Mio and Miriamne
William Faulkner That Evening Sun Go Down
Katherine Anne Porter Why She Selected Flowering Judas
John Dos Passos Why He Selected Escape to the Proletariat
Frank Sullivan Why He Selected the Jukes Family
Booth Tarkington Why He Selected Bridewater's Half Dollar
V the Dust Which Is God
Edna St. Vincent Millay Fifteen Sonnets
William Rose BenÉt Why He Selected from the Dust Which is God
Louis Untermeyer Why He Selected Three Poems
Christopher Morley Why He Selected a Song for Eros
(james) Branch Cabell Why He Selected Dedications in Acrostics
Robinson Jeffers Why He Selected Tamar Dancing
William Carlos Williams Why He Selected Some Flower Studies
Marianne Moore Why She Selected What Are Years?
Muriel Rukeyser Why She Selected Song from "Mediterranean"
H. D. Why She Selected the Islands
Wallace Stevens Why He Selected Domination of Black
Vi the Masters
Agnes Repplier Why Selected Horace
Edgar Lee Masters Why He Selected To-Morrow is My Birthday
Carl Van Doren Why He Selected Swift and Vanessa
Hendrik Willem Van Loon Why He Selected Beethoven
Joseph Wood Krutch Why He Selected the Second Part of "Don Quixote"
Vii the Drama
George Jean Nathan Why He Selected Aesthetic Jurisprudence
Eugene O'Neill Why He Selected the Great God Brown
Robert E. Sherwood Why He Selected the Election of Lincoln
Stark Young Why He Selected Mei Lan-Fang
Thornton Wilder Why He Selected the Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden
William Saroyan Why He Selected A Preface
Clifford Odets Why He Selected Rocket to the Moon
E. E. Cummings Why He Selected Speech from a Play
Viii Kitchen Bouquet
Irvin S. Cobb Why He Selected "Speaking of Operations--"
Cornelia Otis Skinner Why She Selected the Body Beautiful
Robert Benchley Why He Selected the Treasurer's Report
Ogden Nash Why He Selected Two and One Are a Problem
S. J. Perelman Why He Selected Kitchen Bouquet
James Thurber Why He Selected the Night the Ghost Got In
Ludwig Bemelmans Why He Selected Sacre Du Printemps
Ix They Weren't Going to Die
Irwin Edman Why He Selected M. Platon
Pierre Van Paassen Why He Selected the Street of Our Lady
Louis Bromfield Why He Selected the Rains Came
Pearl Buck Why She Selected the Old Demon
John Gunther Why He Selected the Outbreak of International Gangsterism
Vincent Sheean Why He Selected the Thirteen Bus
X the Realm of Being
Biographies and Bibliographies
Acknowledgments
Index by Authors
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