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ERIC Number: EJ388456
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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High-School Students and the "Great American Joke."
Lee, Mary
English Journal, v78 n3 p46-48 Mar 1989
Explains how Louis D. Rubin's theory of the "Great American Joke" (the gap between our cultural ideal and the everyday facts of American life and society) can be used to help students understand humor in an American literature unit. (SR)
Descriptors: High School Students, Humor, Satire, Secondary Education, United States Literature
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Literature Instruction