3 edition of Canadian humour and satire found in the catalog.
Canadian humour and satire
Published
1976
by Macmillan of Canada in Toronto
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Written in
Edition Notes
Bibliography: p. 121-122.
| Statement | edited by Theresa Ford. |
| Series | Themes in Canadian literature |
| Contributions | Ford, Theresa. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PR9197.8 .C3 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 122 p. : |
| Number of Pages | 122 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL4944340M |
| ISBN 10 | 0770512631 |
| LC Control Number | 76371960 |
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Made-in-Canada-Humour is an interdisciplinary survey and analysis of Canadian humour and humorists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book focuses on a variety of genres. It includes celebrated Canadian writers and poets with ironic and satiric perspectives; oral storytellers of tall tales in the country and the city; newspaper print humorists; representative Pages: Canadian Satire, Humour and Hard-Hitting News Conservatives Provide Open, Accountable Government for Minus 17 Minutes Fatigued from 12 plus years of Liberal rule, Stephen Harper and his Conservative Party won power on January 23 by promising Canadians change.
The serial publication of The Clockmaker in launched Canadian judge Thomas Chandler Haliburton to literary fame. A broad satire with a garrulous, deceitful American The Tragedy of Tragedies. Best known today for the novels Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones, Henry Fielding was just as renowned in his own time as a prolific and. More satire, please, we're Canadian. Fallis also submitted his own book to the judges of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. The Best Laid Plans is not the best book of political satire.
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Online shopping for Satire - Humor from a great selection at Books Store. Of Moose and Men. Canadians may be too nice, too passionless to be funny. It has been sneered that the American idea of satire is a pie in the face; Canadian tastes have always been subtler.
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And if Author: Guardian Staff. The Beaverton is a Canadian news satire site similar to The Onion. Canadian songwriter Nancy White uses music as the vehicle for her satire, and her comic folk songs are regularly played on CBC Radio. Cartoonists often use satire as well as straight humour.
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Royal Canadian Air Farce and This Hour has 22 Minutes, both of which are also sketch comedy shows, are also relatively good examples of Canadian humour. The Rick Mercer Report is another example, it's a sort of John Stewart style political satire news program.
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The Penguin Anthology of Canadian Humour brings together a diverse and entertaining collection of the best humour writing. These seventy-one distinctly Canadian selections from fifty-four extraordinary writers represent over a century’s worth of. It is perhaps paradoxical that the first major work of Canadian humour - Thomas McCulloch's "Letters of Mephibosheth Stepsure" () - should have been written by a man whose other credits included Popery Condemned and has always been a perception of something dour, grim and northern about our national literature; critics seeking.
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A Canadian comic character actor whose name I’ve long since forgotten once told me: “American humour is the art of overstatement, English humour is the art of understatement, and Canadian. ‘Through humour, satire, and a range of experiments with language, the collection offers an oblique commentary on Caribbean society.’ ‘Certainly, he made use of all that is available in the repertoire of humour: irony, satire, parody and burlesque.’ ‘It mixes real social and political satire with cheerleading.’.
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He is a two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. He won in for his debut novel, The Best Laid Plans, and .
