Lee,
Judith Yaross. Defining New
Yorker Humor.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. 427pp.
ISBN: 1-57806-197-0 (cloth), 1-57806-198-9 (paper).
Publisher's
information (from University Press of Mississippi)
Acknowledgments
... ix
Introduction:
Why a Scholarly History of the New
Yorker?
... 3
Chapter
1 - Old
and New, Borrowed and Blue: The
New Yorker
in Context ... 20
Chapter
2 - Comic
Business: Humor and Criticism at the Office ... 64
Chapter
3 - "The
Talk of the Town": The Merger of Verbal and Visual ... 108
Chapter
4 - Comic
Art: More than Meets the Eye ... 156
Chapter
5 - Two
into One, and Then There Were None ... 203
Chapter
6 - Comic
Storytelling ... 243
Chapter
7 -
Ironic I's Are Smiling ... 282
Chapter
8 - That
Other New
Yorker
Humor: Comic Verse ... 324
Appendix ...
363
List of
Abbreviations ... 373
Notes ... 376
Works Cited
... 392
Index ... 400