圖書標籤:
发表于2024-11-09
Tar Heel Laughter pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
Foreword<br > Laughter, it is said, exercises the muscles, invigorates the<br >lungs, and lightens the depressed spirits. As long as we can laugh,<br >neither pollution nor war nor man s lethal creations shall ever de-<br >stroy us. "For me," wrote O. Henry, "it is to laugh." And O.<br >Hem v s fellow North Carolinians, back through the years and up to<br >the present, would seem to agree, Except for an implacable mul-<br >ligrubbing sourpuss, everyone enjoys a joke. A fllnny story, told or<br >written with a sense of native art, never goes unappreciated, even in<br >the depths of Gates County s Dismal Swamp. With a laugh, the<br >whole world becomes brighter.<br > When John Lawson, a happy Londoner exploring the New<br >World, wrote tip his journeys of those first dim years of the eigh-<br >teenth century, the recorded history of North Carolina humor<br >began. Sadly, for more than 120 years thereafter, the records were<br >sparse. Then, during the three decades %llowing Ham Jones s<br >famous "Cousin Sally Dilliard" in 1831, rich comic inventions<br >surged from the minds of tim-loving North Carolinians. At that<br >time, newspapermen, not merely reporters and anecdotists but<br >typesetters as well, were prime chroniclers of North Carolina hu-<br >mor. Salisbury s Ham Jones and Milton s C. N. B. Evans epito-<br >mized a southern practice and a southern style in the vein of the old<br >Southwest although they lived on its northeastern periphery. In-<br >(iced, Johnson Jones Hooper of Wilmington, North Carolina. was<br >one of the most famous humorists of the old Southwest. In 1835, at<br >the age of twenty, Hooper moved to Alabama and thereafter wrote<br >almost exclusively of his adopted state.<br > After the Civil War, humor in North Carolina once more<br > moved along steadily, if slowly at times. Gradually such favorite<br > antebellum genres as dialect letters, well-nigh indigestible today ex-<br > cept tor the historians, professional linguists, and lexicographers,<br > disappeared to be replaced by the stories of gifted raconteurs. With<br > the coming of the twentieth century, journalists, who were no longer<br > typesetters but still anecdotists as well as reporters, reaffirmed an<br > vii<br >
評分
評分
評分
評分
Tar Heel Laughter pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024