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American Humor: A Study of the National Character. Constance Rourke. New York: New York Review Books, 2004.
This book is a new edition of Constance Rourke's 1931 masterpiece, American Humor: A Study of the National Character. The best known of Rourke's seven books resurfaces every few years, then fades again from print, never quite establishing its importance as either a historical document or a relevant reference work. In the introduction to the new edition, Greil Marcus calls American Humor "Rourke's great no to America: her insistence that the nation had not yet truly come into being, or found its own voice" (xi)....
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