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Collins, Mark Leonard. "Wolfish Festivity: The Humor of American Frontier Literature," University of Illinois, December 1986.
The humor of American frontier literature (from colonial writers to William Faulkner) is usually studied in a “nativist” or “American” frame but the achievement of humor in American literature can be better appreciated in a dual context—the worlds of Hobbesian animality and of Shakespearean festivity. The British anthropological critics, the Russian literary critic M.M. Bakhtin, and the American critic, C.L. Barber, amplify the wolfish and festive strains in comic and satiric literature which I explore in regional and classic American works.
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