Humor: A Reader for Writers

Humor: A Reader for Writers

<strong>Read. Write. Oxford. </strong><br><br>From Jerry Seinfeld's legendary standup to Kristen Wiig's sidesplitting impersonations, <em>Humor: A Reader for Writers</em> explores the key patterns and features within numerous comedic sources in order to show how jokes work. This survey looks at comedy in a variety of genres including popular media, academic essays, personal narratives, fiction, and poetry. <br><br>Developed for the freshman composition course, <em>Humor: A Reader for Writers</em> includes an interdisciplinary mix of public, academic, and cultural reading selections, providing students with the rhetorical knowledge and compositional skills required to participate effectively in discussions about humor.<br><br><em>Humor: A Reader for Writers</em> is part of a series of brief single-topic readers from Oxford University Press designed for today's college writing courses. Each reader in this series approaches a topic of contemporary conversation from multiple perspectives.<br>