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"Entropy and Transformation: Two types of american Humor", Alen J. Hansen, The American Scholar, Vol. 43, No.3, Summer 1974.

"Death and Black Humor", Thomas Le Clair;
"Djuna Barnes’ "Nightwood" and the american Origins of Black Humor", Donald J. Greiner, Critique, Vol. 17, No.1.

"Pourquoi nous rions", Arthur Koestler, Dialogue vol. 7, No. 2, 1976.

"Jokes and their relations to the conscious", The American Scholar, Summer 1978.

"Colonel Noland of the Spirit: The Voices of a Gentleman in Southwest Humor", Lorne Fienberg, American Literature, vol. 53, No.2, 1981.

"American Humor: Why Do They Laugh — Or Do We?" SPECIAL ISSUE. Revue Française d’Etudes Américaines, No.4, Oct.1977.

"Artists of Community: The Role of Storytellers in the Tales of the Southwest Humorists", S. Gernes, Journal of Popular Culture, vol.15, No.4, Spring 1982.

"The New Deal Was a Joke: Political Humor During the Great Depression", Monroe Billington, Journal of Popular Culture, vol.5, No.3, Fall 1982.

"Comic Pleasure and the Texts", Roger B. Henkle, The Sewanee Review, Vol. XCII, No. 1, Jan.- March 1984.

"The Joke Inside The Joke?", Andrei Siniavski, Partisan Review,No.3, 1984.

"De l’aliénation à l’altérité: les jeux de Benchley sur les signes du monde", Diot, Revue Française des Etudes Américaines, No. 9, avril 1980.

"The Standup Comedian as Anthropologist: Intentional Culture Critic?", S. Kosiski, Journal of Popular culture, vol. 18, No.2, Fall 1984.

"Men in Skirts and Women in Trousers, from Achilles to Victoria Grant: One Explanation of a Comedic Paradox", Corinne Halt Sawyer; Journal of Popular Culture, Vol.21, No.2, Fall 1987.

"Joke and Anti-Joke: Three Jews and a Blindfold", by Paul Lewis; Journal of Popular Culture, Vol.21, No.1, Summer 1987.

"Jews on the Train", Ivan Kalmar; Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 21, No.1, Summer 1987.

"Those Sick Challenger Jokes", Patrick D. Morrow; Journal of Popular Culture, Vol.20, No.4, Spring 1987.

"Franco Jokes: The Spaniards are Still getting even With the Generaissimo", Uxio Valentin, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 20, No.4, Spring 1987.

"The social functions of political humour", Don L.F Nilsen, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 24, Winter 1990. No.3

"Merely Anecdotal", Aristides, The American Scholar, Vol. 61, No.2, Spring 1992.

"Ethnic Humor and the Demise of the Russell Brothers", Maschio, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 26, No.1, Summer 1992.

"Displacing Culture: A Joke of Significance in Urban Papua New Guinea", Battaglia, New Literary History, Vol. 23, No.4, Autumn 1992.

"Heterodite Humor: Alice Duer Miller and Florence Guy Seabury", Dresner, Journal of American Culture, Vol. 10, No.3, Fall 1987.

"No Laughing Matter: American Women Humorists Versus ‘True Womanhood’, 1820-1880", Journal of American Culture, Vol. 13, No.3, Fall 1990.

"Images of Women in Soviet Jokes and Anecdotes", Marshall, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 26, No.2, Fall 1992.

Section on Humor:
"Toward an Understanding of Humor as Popular Culture in American Society", Hall, Keeter, and Williamson:
"Humor In Baseball: Functions and Dysfunctions", Katovich;
"Did You Ever See a Hearse Go By? Some Thoughts on Gallows Humor", Thorson;
"No Laughing Matter: Values, Perception, and the Demise of AIDS Jokes", Hall;
"Comedy and Humor in Country Music", Cusic;
"Humor as Rhetoric and Cultural Argument", Smith; Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 16, No.2, Summer 1993.

"The Popularity of 0.J. Simpson Jokes: The More We Know, the More We Laugh", Lamb, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol.28, No.1, Summer 1994.

"Creating Situations: Practical Jokes and the Revival of the Dead in Irish Tradition", Harlow, Journal of American Folklore, Vol.110, No.436, Spring 1997.

"Dumb Blondes, Dan Quayle, and Hillary Clinton: Gender, Sexuality, and Stupidity in Jokes", Thomas, Journal of American Folklore, Vol.110, No.437, Summer 1997.

"Humor in Crisis: Guadalupe Loaeza’s Caricature of the Mexican Bourgeoisie", Aguilar, Journal of American Culture, Vol.20, No.2, Summer 1997.

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