Humour Studies books

Members’ books

• Iain Topliss. The Comic Worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams and Saul Steinberg (Baltimore, London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005)
  http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/3477.html
• Jessica Milner Davis, ed. Understanding Humor In Japan (Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2006)
  http://wsupress.wayne.edu/humor/davisuhj/davisc.html
  Review here (.doc)
• Benjamin Marks, Rodney Marks and Robert Spillane. The Management Contradictionary (Melbourne, M. Anderson Publishing, 2006)
  http://www.contradicta.com
  Review here (.doc)
• Sundar Ramanathaiyer & Nancy Hudson-Rodd, eds. Tragic Idiom ~ O. V. Vijayan's Cartoons & Notes on India with Foreword by Bruce Petty. (DC Books, Kottayam, India, 2006)
  http://www.scholarswithoutborders.in
  Review here (.doc)
• Robert Phiddian and Haydon Manning, eds. Comic Commentators: Contemporary Political Cartooning in Australia (Curtin University of Technology, API-Network Books, 2008)
  http://www.api-network.com/
  Review here (.pdf)
• Peter Kirkpatrick and Fran de Groen, eds. Serious Frolic: Essays on Australian Humour (St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 2009)
  http://www.uq.edu.au/news/index.html?article=17493

Other current book links

• Mouton de Gruyter Humor Research Book Series
  http://www.degruyter.com/cont/glob/neutralReiEn.cfm?rc=16087
• Transaction Press Humor Book Series
  http://books.google.com/books/transaction?hl=en&q=humor&btnG=Search+Books
• Rod A. Martin, The Psychology of Humor: An Integrative Approach, Academic Press, 2006, ISBN: 978-0-12-372564-6
  http://www.elsevierdirect.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780123725646
• Wallace Chafe, The Importance of Not Being Earnest: The feeling behind laughter and humor, John Benjamins, 2007, ISBN 978 90 272 4152 8
  http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=C%26EB%203
• Laughingly Referred To: An Interdisciplinary Bibliography of Published Work in the Field of Humour Studies and Research: On-line Humour Bibliography maintained until 2002 by Jason Rutter, CRIC, Manchester University, UK
  http://www.cric.ac.uk/cric/staff/Jason_Rutter/HumourResearch/search.htm
• Wikipedia’s List of Publications in Humor Research
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_publications_in_humor_research