Nation, Social Class and Style: a Comparison of the Humour of Britain and America

Historically a much greater range of styles of literary humour were to be found in Bri[1]t sun than in the United States because Bi „.n was a much more hierarchical society with a divined elite and an aristocratic as well as a bourgeois aesthetic. In America there was a single dominant class, that...

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Main Author: Christie Davies
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Uniwersytet Opolski 2006-12-01
Series:Stylistyka
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Online Access:https://czasopisma.uni.opole.pl/index.php/s/article/view/3884