Tom Robbins Project: Working Bibliography

I'm recording the sources I've located and *skimmed and/or *read the abstract of and/or *partially read. I'm calling this a "working bibliography" because I'm pretty sure I won't end up citing everything on this list. It is, after all, only an 8-10 page paper. I'd use up 10 pages just annotating these! But I'd like to keep this recorded for future reference. Especially if I ever decide to expand my analysis into something broader than I'm doing for this 638 paper. I've separated the sources into three categories--political criticism, humor theory, and the intersection of the two--to make the list more coherent. Ergo:

Working Bibliography

Hoyser, Catherine E., and Lorena L. Stookey. "Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas." Tom Robbins: a Critical Companion. Westport: Greenwood, 1997. 139-56. Print.

Political Criticism:
Althusser, Louis. "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses." Literary Theory: an Anthology. Ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Second ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub. 2004. 693-702. Print.

Emerson, Caryl. "On the Generation That Squandered Its Philosophers (Losev, Bakhtin, and Classical Thought as Equipment for Living)." Studies in East European Thought 56.2/3 (2004): 95-117. JStor. Web. 17 Apr. 2010.

Gitlin, Todd. "After the Failed Faiths: Beyond Individualism, Marxism, and Multiculturalism." World Policy Journal 12.1 (1995): 61-68. JStor. Web. 5 Apr. 2010.

Gramsci, Antonio. "Hegemony." Literary Theory: an Anthology. Ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Second ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub, 2004. 673-74. Print.

Marx, Karl. "Labor and Capital." Literary Theory: an Anthology. Ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Second ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub, 2004. 659-64. Print.

Novak, Estelle G. ""Dynamo" School of Poets." Contemporary Literature 11.4 (1970): 526-39. JStor. Web. 17 Apr. 2010.

Rikowski, Glenn. "Left Alone: End Time for Marxist Educational Theory?" British Journal of Sociology of Education 17.4 (1996): 415-51. JStor. Web. 17 Apr. 2010.

Humor Theory:
Bell, Nancy D. "Humor Comprehension: Lessons Learned from Cross-Cultural Communication." Humor: International Journal of Humor Research 20.4 (2007): 367-87. Academic Search Elite. Web. 14 Apr. 2010.

Berk, Ronald A. "Does Humor in Course Tests Reduce Anxiety and Improve Performance?" College Teaching 48.4 (2000): 151-58. JStor. Web. 7 Apr. 2010.

Harbsmeier, Christophe. "Confucius Ridens: Humor in The Analects." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 50.1 (1990): 131-61. JStor. Web. 17 Apr. 2010.

Mason, Jeffrey D. "Arthur Miller's Ironic Resurrection." Theatre Journal 5.4 (2003): 657-77. JStor. Web. 9 Apr. 2010.

Political and/or Didacticism and Humor Theory Combined:
Mascha, Efharis. "Political Satire and Hegemony: A Case of “Passive Revolution” during Mussolini’s Ascendance to Power 1919-1925." Humor: International Journal of Humor Research 21.1 (2008): 61-98. Academic Search Elite. Web. 14 Apr. 2010.

Bakhtin, Mikhail. "Rabelais and His World." Literary Theory: an Anthology. Ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Second ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub. 2004. 686-92. Print.

Thorne, Christian. "Thumbing Our Nose at the Public Sphere: Satire, the Market, and the Invention of Literature." PMLA 116.3 (2001): 531-44. JStor. Web. 17 Apr. 2010.

Van Pelt, Sandra Eileen Body. "Excremental Recycling in Selected Writings of Edward Taylor and Jonathan Swift: A Structuralist Study in Scatological Humor and Didactic Accommodation." Diss. University of Mississippi, 2003. Digital Dissertations and Theses (2003). ProQuest. Web. 23 Apr. 2010.

Whall-Seligman, Helen Marie. "To Instruct and Delight: Didactic Method in Five Tudor Dramas." Diss. Yale University, 1976. Digital Dissertations and Theses. ProQuest. Web. 23 Apr. 2010.