Jokes and targets

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Main Author: Davies, Christie
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington [Ind.] : Indiana University Press, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : why study jokes and targets?
  • Mind over matter: a general theory of jokes about the stupid and the canny
  • Blondes, sex, and the French
  • Jewish women and Jewish men
  • Sex between men : places, occupations, and classes
  • The great American lawyer joke cycle
  • The rise of the Soviet joke and the fall of the Soviet Union
  • Conclusion.