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Dramatic essays on the history and nature of American humor. Written by J.F.S. Smeall, assistant professor of English at the University of North Dakota and editor of the North Dakota Quarterly.

Available Episodes

Learning and respectability00:29:13

Constructions in a Hickok void00:29:13

The playhouse in a new reality00:29:27

A comic past00:29:16

1961-03-14Recapitulation00:29:40

1961-03-07The late moral tails00:29:34

1961-02-28Sly and fabulous beasts00:29:30

1961-02-24Female agitations00:29:46

1961-02-19The residing dignity of the law00:29:34

1961-02-16The urbanite pastoral00:29:30

1961-02-09A traveller's quest00:29:08

1961-01-31Steel mirrors for the old South00:29:30

1961-01-13The grotesque corner00:29:35

1961-01-05Change in the public letter box00:29:37

1960-12-12The playhouse in a new reality00:29:45

1960-12-06A comic past00:29:03

1960-12-01Constructions in a Hickok void00:29:32

1960-11-29Learning and respectability00:29:35

1960-11-22The dearth of news00:29:30

1960-11-22The dearth of news00:29:30

Subjects: American newspapers; City dwellers; Femininity in literature; Femininity--Humor; Motion picture industry; News & Journalism; Open letters; Pastoral fiction; Periodicals; Travel writing; Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Travel; U.S. Literature; United States; Wireless communication systems--History; Wit and humor; Wit and humor--Fiction; Wit and humor--History and criticism; Wit and humor--Psychological aspects; Wit and humor--United States
Creators: Bryce, E. Scott; KFJM (Radio Station : Grand Forks, N.D.); Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Smeall, J. F. S.; University of North Dakota
Contributors: Anderson, Barbara; Charbonneau, Ann; Cooper, Dennis; Curry, Myron; Henley, Mel; Jones, Thomas; Lee, Barbara; Lee, Henry; O'Reilly, Jean; Olson, Dorothy; Olson, Glenn; Smeall, J.F.S.; Swenson, Ward; Worden, Donald
Genres: Comedy; Educational
Time Periods: 1960-1969