{"product_id":"humor-and-masculinity-in-us-joseph-l-coulombe-9781032752150","title":"Humor and Masculinity in U.S. Fiction: Intersections, Performances, and Functions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHumor and Masculinity in U.S. Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e offers a pragmatic and theoretically informed model for analyzing how humor and gender intersect in key U.S. texts, bringing much-needed attention to the complex ways that humor can support and\/or subvert reductive masculine codes and behaviors. Its argument builds upon three major humor theories - the incongruity theory, superiority theory, and relief theory - to analyze how humor is used to negotiate the shifting constructions of masculinity and manhood in American culture and literature. Focusing on explicit textual references to joking, pranks, and laughter, \u003ci\u003eHumor and Masculinity in U.S. Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e offers well-supported, original interpretations of works by Mark Twain, Owen Wister, Dorothy Parker, Zora Neale Hurston, Joseph Heller, Philip Roth, and Sherman Alexie. The primary goal of \u003ci\u003eHumor and Masculinity in U.S. Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e is to understand the multiple ways that humor performs and interrogates masculinity in seminal U.S. texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph L. Coulombe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032752157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032752150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 164\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d","brand":"Joseph L. Coulombe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997555536127,"sku":"9781032752150","price":61.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/humor-and-masculinity-in-us-joseph-l-coulombe-9781032752150","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}