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Flashcard maker : Lesly Lloyd
freuds 4 types of tendentious jokes
hosistile, obscene, cynical, skeptical
how does freud catagorize tendentive jokes that attack social insittutions like marriage?
cynical
Rubin locates the “Great American Joke” in two central, parallel incongruities. Which phrase best describes these paired conflicts?
Ideal vs. real, and formal language vs. vernacular language
ue or False: Rubin identifies Simon Suggs as an uneducated, but completely virtuous and honorable man.
false
When Mencken writes “every man has got a right to live, to come and go as he pleases, and to have a good time whichever way he likes, so long as he don’t interfere with nobody else,” he is parodying this phrase:
“…that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…”
Constance Rourke’s “comic trio” consists of:
The Yankee, The Backwoodsman, and The Negro
Which of these is NOT an attribute of Rourke’s Yankee? Use of vernacular speech
A rough sincerity
A blank countenance
A sense of belonging to a community
A rough sincerity
A blank countenance
A sense of belonging to a community
Which of these is NOT an attribute of Rourke’s Yankee?
3 attributes of rourkes yankee
Use of vernacular speech
A rough sincerity
A blank countenance
A rough sincerity
A blank countenance
ue or False: though “The Contrast” deals with American themes, its author, Royall Tyler, was British.
false
The Contrast
by Tyler
between snobbish Englishmen (Mr. Dimple and his servant Jessamy) and rough-around-the-edges but authentic Americans (Colonel Manly and his servant, Jonathan—the latter a prime example of Rourke’s Yankee)
Blair
argues that it wasn’t until a few decades after the Revolutionary War that Americans developed both an idea of what made them unique and a distinctively American way of expressing themselves.
Rubin
says that the colorful, colloquial language employed by American humorists—full of folksy slang and deliberately misused big words—reflects a gap between the nation’s ideals and its reality.
Mencken’s translation of the Declaration of Independence into 20th-century “American
is an illustration of what Rubin is talking about.
Speier
the teller, the target, and the laugher
Webb
uses very specific definitions of “conservative” and “radical” in his article. His notion of “conservative” humor (which does NOT in every case line up with a “conservative” political position) is, as he notes, compatible with Bergson’s notion of humor as a tool that mainly reinforces societal “rules.”
The other important idea Bergson introduces to our discussion is
the notion of comedy’s social function. Laughter, says Bergson, is one of the ways in which society enforces its rules: “wrong” thinking and behavior are punished through ridicule. While Bergson considers mechanical inflexibility the main kind of “wrong” behavior which laughter aims to correct, he acknowledges that what a society considers “wrong” (and therefore laughable) is subjective, and has little to do with moral absolutes.
Bergson believes that the primary function of laughter is to
“punish” machine-like behavior
Rubin
Rubin locates the “Great American Joke” in two central, parallel incongruities. Ideal vs. real, and formal language vs. vernacular language
Mencken
life liberty and persuit of happiness
Rourke’s
comic trio of The Yankee, The Backwoodsman, and The Negro
