Humour Studies books
Members’ books
- Iain Topliss. The Comic Worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams and Saul Steinberg (Baltimore, London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005)
http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/3477.html - Susan Seizer, Stigmas of the Tamil Stage: An Ethnography of Special Drama Artists in South India (Duke University Press, 2004), a study of the comedy scenes in south Indian popular theatre.
http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=3402. - Jessica Milner Davis, ed. Understanding Humor In Japan (Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2006)
http://wsupress.wayne.edu/humor/davisuhj/davisc.html
Review here (.doc) - Benjamin Marks, Rodney Marks and Robert Spillane. The Management Contradictionary (Melbourne, M. Anderson Publishing, 2006)
http://www.contradicta.com
Review here (.doc) - Sundar Ramanathaiyer & Nancy Hudson-Rodd, eds. Tragic Idiom ~ O. V. Vijayan's Cartoons & Notes on India with Foreword by Bruce Petty. (DC Books, Kottayam, India, 2006)
http://www.swb.co.in
Review here (.doc) - Robert Phiddian and Haydon Manning, eds. Comic Commentators: Contemporary Political Cartooning in Australia (Curtin University of Technology, API-Network Books, 2008)
http://www.api-network.com/
Review here (.pdf) - Peter Kirkpatrick and Fran de Groen, eds. Serious Frolic: Essays on Australian Humour (St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 2009)
http://www.uq.edu.au/news/index.html?article=17493 - Brigid Maher (La Trobe University), Recreation and Style: Translating Humorous Literature in Italian and English (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2011). A study of the translation of humour, irony, parody, satire and the grotesque in a number of contemporary Italian and English literary texts.
http://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/btl.90 - Michael Ewans (Newcastle University), ed. and trans.: “Lysistrata”, “The Women’s Festival”, and “Frogs”, by Aristophanes (Oklahoma City: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011). Sparkling, stage-ready translations of three classic plays, giving an accurate and uncensored translation of Aristophanes’ raw, sexual scatology and political satire. http://www.oupress.com/ECommerce/Book/Detail/1542/lysistrata%20%20the%20women%2027s%20festival%20%20and%20frogs
- Jocelyn Chey and Jessica Milner Davis, eds. Humour in Chinese Life and Letters: Classical and Traditional Approaches (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011).
http://www.hkupress.org/Common/Reader/Products/ShowProduct.jsp?Pid=1&Version=0&Cid=16&Charset=iso-8859-1&page=-1&key=9789888083510 - Conal Condren, Hobbes, The Scriblerians and the History of Philosophy (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2012).
http://www.pickeringchatto.com/monographs/hobbes_the_scriblerians_and_the_history_of_philosophy - Debra Aarons, Jokes and the Linguistic Mind (Milton Park U.K. & New York: Routledge, 2012).
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415890496/ - Margaret A. Rose. Pictorial Irony, Parody, and Pastiche: Comic Interpictoriality in the Arts of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 2011.
http://www.aisthesis.de/titel/9783895288418.htm
Other current links
- John Benjamins “Topics in Humor Research” Book Series
http://www.benjamins.com/#catalog/books/thr/main - Mouton de Gruyter Humor Research Book Series
http://www.degruyter.com/cont/glob/neutralReiEn.cfm?rc=16087 - Transaction Press Humor Book Series
http://books.google.com/books/transaction?hl=en&q=humor&btnG=Search+Books - Rod A. Martin, The Psychology of Humor: An Integrative Approach (Academic Press, 2006, ISBN: 978-0-12-372564-6).
http://www.elsevierdirect.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780123725646 - Wallace Chafe, The Importance of Not Being Earnest: The feeling behind laughter and humor (John Benjamins, 2007, ISBN 978 90 272 4152 8).
http://www.benjamins.com/#catalog/books/ceb.3 - Delia Chiaro (ed.), Translation, Humour and Literature, Vol. 1: Translation and Humour (London: Continuum, 2010).
http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=168456&SntUrl=152491
This work contains two chapters by AHSN members:
Michael Ewans, “Translating Aristophanes into English”, pp. 77-90;
Marguerite Wells, “Translating Humour For Performance: Two Hard Cases from Inoue Hisashi’s Play, Yabuhara Kengyō”, pp. 134-157 (text of mock-epic, pp. 135-146).
A video recording of Dr Wells performing the mock epic at the 2011 AHSN Colloquium in Hobart is available here. - Laughingly Referred To: An Interdisciplinary Bibliography of Published Work in the Field of Humour Studies and Research: On-line Humour Bibliography maintained until 2002 by Jason Rutter, CRIC, Manchester University, UK
http://www.cric.ac.uk/cric/staff/Jason_Rutter/HumourResearch/search.htm - Wikipedia’s List of Publications in Humor Research
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_publications_in_humor_research - Jessica Milner Davis. 'Taking the mickey': A brave Australian tradition. The Fine Print, 4 (August 2007): 20–27.