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December Comedy:

Studies in Senior Comedy and Other Essays

By Robin Jaeckle Grawe

Edited by Paul Grawe

 

 

 

 

 

Table of Contents

 

Cover painting "Autumn Light" by Elizabeth "Lisa" Jaeckle

 

Acknowledgements

 

Introduction

 

Chapter 1    The Humor Grim of Henrik Ibsen

 

Chapter 2    Laughter in the Structural Dynamic of Flannery O’Connor

 

Chapter 3   Comedy of Manners and a Sombre Sense of Regain in the Stories of Eudora Welty

 

Chapter 4    Vitalist Humor in American Senior Film Comedy

 

Chapter 5    Humor Quotient Test:  Theoretical Design

 

Chapter 6    Humor Quotient Test:  Validation and Results

 

Chapter 7    Surviving Negotiation with Humor:  Part I

 

Chapter 8    Surviving Negotiation with Humor:  Part II

 

Chapter 9    Denominational Differences in Vitalist Humor Preference

 

Chapter 10  Humor and the Comedic Restoration of Balance in The Whales of August

 

Chapter 11  Erich Segal, Aristophanes, and Grumpy Old Men

 

Chapter 12  The Irrepressibly Complex Falstaff:  A Humor Structure Analysis of Falstaff in

                     Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part I

 

Chapter 13  Humor Structure Interplay in Steel Magnolias

 

Chapter 14  Humor Preference and Folksong Appreciation:  Peter, Paul, and Mary Return

 

About the author

 

 

  

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