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Black Humor - in literature, drama, and film, grotesque or morbid humor used to express the absurdity, insensitivity, paradox, and cruelty of the modern world. Ordinary characters or situations are usually exaggerated far beyond the limits of normal satire or irony. Black humor uses devices often associated with tragedy and is sometimes equated with tragic farce. For example, Stanley Kubrick's


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    Death and Black Humor, in Critique » Read Now

    by Thomas Leclair. 36 pgs.

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    ...Death and Black Humor THOMAS LeCLAIR That Black Humor has become a fit subject for the literary historian as...Olderman Beyond the Waste Land , and Max F. Schulz Black...
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    Surrealist Black Humor as Oppositional Discourse, in Symposium » Read Now

    by John D. Erickson. 18 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...JOHN D. ERICKSON SURREALIST BLACK HUMOR AS OPPOSITIONAL DISCOURSE LE...moreover, that the germinal concept of black humor elaborated by Breton often, paradoxically...4 This...
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    American Dark Comedy: Beyond Satire » Read Now

    by Wes D. Gehring. 194 pgs.

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    From Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, Gehring presents a compelling theory of the black comedy film genre. Placing the movies he discusses in a historical and literary context, Gehring explores the genre's obession with death and the characters' failure to be...
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    Toward the Poetics of Surrealism (Discussion of black humor begins on p. 88) » Read Now

    by J. H. Matthews. 241 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...for example, analysis of the surrealist concept of black humor will make this available to us -- that, when we hear...calves, some sprinkled with roses, others in every...
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    Between Two Worlds: The American Novel in the 1960's (Chap. II "The Graying of Black Humor") » Read Now

    by Sanford Pinsker. 139 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Pinsker identifies the literary trends that dominated the decade and focuses upon authors who came into prominence during this period.
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    Rebellious Laughter: People's Humor in American Culture (Discussion of black humor begins on p. 87) » Read Now

    by Joseph Boskin. 252 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...Chitlin Circuit," by contrast, black humor and its performers were little...few in number or had no power. Black humor flowed into society in the performances...distanced...
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    Semites and Stereotypes: Characteristics of Jewish Humor (Chap. 1 "The Schlemiezel: Black Humor and the Shtetl Tradition") » Read Now

    by Avner Ziv, Anat Zajdman. 206 pgs.

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    This interdisciplinary collection of essays assesses Jewish humor as a subject of serious scholarly inquiry. Scholars from England, France, the United States, Denmark, Israel, and Australia explore Jewish humor from a variety of perspectives, including anthropology, literature, psychology...
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    Encyclopedia of 20th-Century American Humor ("Black Humor" begins on p. 46) » Read Now

    by Alleen Pace Nilsen, Don L. F. Nilsen. 366 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Who says you can't have a serious reference work on humor? This new resource offers a broad look at humor with more than 100 well-written and entertaining entries. Scholarly in nature, yet enjoyable to read, the Encyclopedia examines several aspects of humor, such as: styles of humor, subjects of...
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    The Unconfirmed Thesis: Kurt Vonnegut, Black Humor, and Contemporary Art, in Critique » Read Now

    by Max F. Schulz. 24 pgs.

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    ...Unconfirmed Thesis: Kurt Vonnegut, Black Humor, And Contemporary Art MAX F...dissociated from its content. The Black Humor writer inhabiting this new...

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