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Dark Humor: A Rhetoric of Social Taboos

PWR 1GIF - Winter 2013 - Instructor: Fernandez, I.
Last Updated: 17-Dec-2012

A guide to resources for PWR 1GIF: Dark Humor: A Rhetoric of Social Taboos. Topics include the logic behind material that is shocking, marginal and vulgar, and how such material works as a form of argument.

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Background/Reference Sources for Dark Humor

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument.

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » PN1922 .W45 2009
London ; Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn, c2001.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » Z658 .W675 C38 2000 V.1
Westport, Conn. : Praeger , 2005.
Green » HASRC (Lane Room) (Non-circulating) » PN6147 .C565 2005 V.1
Oxford ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2000.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » GN471.4 .H65 2000
Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 2000.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » PS438 .N55 2000
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » E169.1 .G7555 2002 V.1
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » E169.1 .G7555 2002 V.1

Selected books related to Dark Humor

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2009.
Green » Stacks » PN5289 .A253 M675 2009
Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Green » Stacks » PN6149 .P5 M67 2009
Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2003.
Green » Stacks » GR455 .O43 2003
Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2005.
Green » Stacks » PN6149 .E83 R37 2005
New York : Garland Pub., 1993.
Green » Stacks » PS430 .B48 1993

Databases

Besides the selected general and subject-specific databases listed here , try these databases for Articles on particular perspectives on Dark Humor