Elliott Oring asks essential questions concerning humorous expression in contemporary society, examining how humor works, why it is employed, and what its messa...
Almost everyone tells and appreciates jokes. Yet the nature of jokes has proved elusive. When asked what they really mean, people tend to laugh off the question...
Nothing in the understanding of humor is as simple as it might seem. In Joking Asides, Elliott Oring confronts the problems of humor, analyzing the key contempo...
Oring's introductory folklore text consists of a series of essays by leading scholars that give the student a solid sense of major folklore topics and interpret...
The Consolations of Humor and Other Folklore Essays unfolds as a series of questions, commentaries, and criticisms of the analysis, interpretation, and explana...
Oring's introductory folklore text consists of a series of essays by leading scholars that give the student a solid sense of major folklore topics and interpret...
byAnastasiya Astapova,Tsafi Sebba-Elran,Elliott Oring,Dan Ben-Amos,Larisa Privalskaya,Ilze Akerbergs,Michaela Lang
Works on Jewish humor and Jewish jokes abound today, but what formed the basis for our contemporary notions of Jewish jokes? How and when did these perceptions ...
"It didn't occur to me until fairly late in the work that I was writing a book about the beginnings of a national celebrity culture. By 1860, a few boxers had ...
Her rallying cry was famous: "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." A century ago, Mother Jones was a celebrated organizer and agitator, the ve...
byElliott Gorn,Warren Goldstein
Elliott J. Gorn and Warren Goldstein show us where our games and pastimes came from, how they developed, and what they have meant to Americans. The great her...
byElliott Gorn,Warren Goldstein
How sports have changed! At the end of our century, a baseball player won a contract that paid him several million dollars a year; a boxer consistantly earns mi...
byElliott Gorn,Terry Bilhartz,Randy Roberts
This primary source reader captures the excitement of hands-on history through letters, articles, journalistic sources, photographs and posters. Constructing t...
byElliot Gorn,Randy Roberts,Terry Bilhartz
This is a college American history textbook, containing numerous historical documents....
The concept of "fair value" marked a major departure from traditional cost accounting. In theory, under this approach a balance sheet that better reflects the c...
byLisa Brenner, Stephanie A. Reid-Arndt,Timothy Elliott,Robert Frank,Bruce Caplan
The field of rehabilitation has undergone major change, shifting toward an emphasis on health outcomes and understanding multiple determinants of health. Person...