American Cornball

[Mark Thibodeau]

Wonderful stuff! Thanks guys!

Mark T.

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've long heard of it; I had a copy until my recent book-dismantling,
> but have not read it but yes to Cherrycoke, of course
> AND maybe P carefully, clearly, has him drop the social mask in the
> beginning of the book, the END of his social adventures?
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekker2 at icloud.com>
> wrote:
> > I don't know if anyone is old enough to have read "American Humor: A
> Study of the National Character"  by Constance Rourke (1931 but a classic)
> which I read in college as a history major.
> >
> > Rourke identified the character of the "Yankee" as the first American
> comic and I see Cherrycoke as having some of the characteristics of this
> archetype.
> >
> > From the link below:
> > " had grown up under the watchful eye of his fellow Puritans and had
> learned to hide his playfulness beneath a social mask. His speech was
> quirky by design. He drawled out such lines as "If you catch me there agin,
> you'll catch a white weasel asleep, I tell you." He typically answered one
> question with another, in order to prolong conversation without giving
> anything away.
> >
> > But she also describes the "frontiersman ," and the "minstrel" and their
> relationship to the culture as a whole.  We were couuntry bumpkins to the
> rest of the world  - but proud of it to ourselves as long as we could make
> a buck.
> >
> >
> http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/03/28/whats_so_funny_about_americans_anyway/?page=full
> >
> > That was such a great book and it was rereleased in 2004 so I'm tempted
> to get it - okay,  I got it.  lol
> >
> > Bekah
> >
> >
> >> On Jan 21, 2015, at 7:22 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> http://americancornball.tumblr.com
> >>
> >> http://www.harpercollins.com/9780062225177/american-cornball
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