The humor of the Old Southwest / [special issue editor, Lewis P. Simpson].
- Published
- State College, Miss. : Mississippi State University, [1964]
- Copyright Date
- ©1964
- Physical Description
- pages [63]-122 ; 23 cm
- Additional Creators
- Simpson, Lewis P. and American Studies Association of the Lower Mississippi. Meeting (9th : 1963 : Lafayatte, La.)
- Contents
- The humor of the Old Southwest / Lewis P. Simpson -- Scholarship in southwestern humor, past and present / John Q. Anderson -- The humor of the Old Southwest : yesterday and today / John K. Bettersworth -- Mark Twain and the political ambivalence of southwestern humor / William C. Havard -- Some uses of folk humor by Faulkner / Otis B. Wheeler.
- Subject(s)
- Related Titles
- Mississippi quarterly
- Collection
- James B. Meriwether Collection of Antebellum Southern Realistic and Humorous Writing.
- Note
- Special issue of Mississippi quarterly, v. 17, no. 2, spring 1964.
Cover title.
"Essays ... presented at the ninth annual meeting of the American Studies Association of the Lower Mississippi held at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana, on October 11-12, 1963."--P. [63]. - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references.
View MARC record | catkey: 3315004