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Dramatic essays on the history and nature of American humor. Written by J.F.S. Smeall, assistant professor of English at the University of North Dakota and editor of the North Dakota Quarterly.

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Learning and respectability00:29:13
Constructions in a Hickok void00:29:13
The playhouse in a new reality00:29:27
A comic past00:29:16
1961-03-14Recapitulation00:29:40
1961-03-07The late moral tails00:29:34
1961-02-28Sly and fabulous beasts00:29:30
1961-02-24Female agitations00:29:46
1961-02-19The residing dignity of the law00:29:34
1961-02-16The urbanite pastoral00:29:30
1961-02-09A traveller's quest00:29:08
1961-01-31Steel mirrors for the old South00:29:30
1961-01-13The grotesque corner00:29:35
1961-01-05Change in the public letter box00:29:37
1960-12-12The playhouse in a new reality00:29:45
1960-12-06A comic past00:29:03
1960-12-01Constructions in a Hickok void00:29:32
1960-11-29Learning and respectability00:29:35
1960-11-22The dearth of news00:29:30
1960-11-22The dearth of news00:29:30
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Subjects
1801 to 1861; 1865 to 1920; American literature; American newspapers; Animals; Broadcasting; City dwellers; Civics; Early U.S. History (to 1900); Ecology & the Environment; Economy & Business; Femininity in literature; Femininity--Humor; Fiction; Film; Gender & Women's History; Law; Media Arts; Motion picture industry; NAEB Region IV; NAEB Regions III & IV: The Upper Midwest; News & Journalism; Novels; Pastoral fiction, American; Periodicals; Plays; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Poetry; Psychology & Mental Health; Science & Technology; Sociology; Theater; Theater & Drama; Travel & Leisure; Travel writing; Twain, Mark, 1835-1910; Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Travel; U.S. Government; U.S. Literature; U.S. Politics; United States--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century; United States--History--19th century; United States--Politics and government; Wireless communication systems--History; Wit and humor; Wit and humor--Psychological aspects; Women; Writing
Creators
KFJM (Radio Station : Grand Forks, N.D.); Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Smeall, J. F. S.; University of North Dakota
Contributors
Anderson, Barbara; Bryce, E. Scott; Charbonneau, Ann; Cooper, Dennis; Curry, Myron M.; Henley, Mel; Jones, Thomas; Lee, Barbara; Lee, Henry G.; O'Reilly, Jean; Olson, Dorothy; Olson, Glenn; Smeall, J. F. S.; Swenson, Ward; Worden, Donald
Genres
Comedy; Educational
Time Periods
1950-1959; 1960-1969