Wallace, Ronald. God Be with the Clown: Humor in American Poetry [review]

American Humor in Promoting the Talk over the Wall with a Focus on Robert Frost’s Poems

The Yankee is an American national phenomenon. He had leapt into national stature when slipped outside of his local character. A myth was woven around him and a cult of the Yankee developed by the permeation of the Yankee characteristics in many different characters who played tricks or told stories and entertained their audiences. The present article is an attempt to observe the Yankee myth, i...

childish concept of god in contemporary iranian and american poetry

awareness of the concept of god is very important for human beings especially when he is only a child. because this notion can change his attitude toward god when he is younger and leads him to a kind of religiosity. if his concept of god in earlier ages were a positive attitude and take him as a beneficent, omnipotent and almighty, the conclusion would be essentially different. this article is...

Humor in the "Twilight Zone": My Work as a Medical Clown With Patients With Dementia.

Medical clowning has been primarily identified with working with children in pediatrics wards in hospitals. Over the past decade, more and more medical clowns have been working with adults and with patients with dementia as part of holistic care. Along with traditional medical care by hospital staff, the medical clown treats the patient's emotional side. Furthermore, medical clowning has unique...

Humor and Translation: A Case Study of Black Humor in Langston Hughes's Poetry

Black humor plays a crucial role in fulfilling Langston Hughes's anti-racist purposes as an integral notion in his poetry.  Accordingly, translation(s) of his poetry are to benefit from the same indexes on the basis of equivalent effect principle. On this account, 33 black-humor-rich poems of Hughes, translated by Ahmad Shamloo, Yaghma Golruee and Hassan Fayyad, were selected to be analyzed con...

Book Review: Pratiquer l'ACT par le Clown [ACT through Clown]