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Preface: What is this Book?
1. A General Review of the Writing Situation
Christopher Perkins
2. What We Talk About When We Talk About Humor
3. Sample Essay: What Makes Me Laugh
4. Using Sources in Academic Writing
5. Sample Essay: Analyzing Humor with Sources
6. Understanding Humor Historically: An Introduction to the Three Major Theories
7. Philebus
Plato
8. Human Nature (1650)
Thomas Hobbes
9. Observations on Man (1749)
David Hartley
10. Reflections Upon Laughter (1750)
Francis Hutcheson
11. Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic (1900)
Henri Bergson
12. Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious (1905)
Sigmund Freud
13. What Else? Considering the Larger Implications of Humor
14. Naturalizing Racial Differences Through Comedy: Asian, Black, and White Views on Racial Stereotypes in Rush Hour 2 (2006)
Ji Hoon Park; Nadine G. Gabbadon; and Ariel R. Chernin
15. Recovering Our Sense of Humor: New Directions in Feminist Humor Studies (2015)
Kathryn Kein
16. The Good, The Bad, and The Funny: An Ethics of Humor (2020)
John Morreall
17. Two Rules for Researching
18. Developing Research Questions
19. Evaluating Sources: the CRAAP Test
20. Common Research Topics for This Class
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