Sometimes the Dragon Wins

Dundes, Alan & Pragter, Carl

ISBN 10: 0815603711 / ISBN 13: 9780815603719

Verlag: Syracuse University Press Syracuse 1996, 1996

Beschreibung

First Printing Paperback Good+. 8vo, 364, Trade paperback. General wear to covers. Several top corner page folds. ISBN:0-8156-0371-1. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 025019

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Sometimes the Dragon Wins

Verlag: Syracuse University Press Syracuse 1996

Erscheinungsdatum: 1996

Einband: Softcover

Auflage: 1. Auflage

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Inhaltsangabe:

Book by Dundes Alan Pagter Carl

Reseña del editor:

This is a collection of Xerox lore and humour circulating widely in today's workplace. Have you seen anytime recently the "High School Math Test", or "Varying Interpretations of a Basic Philosophical Principle", or "Why God Never Received Tenure". Well, it's all here and much more. The book features humorous commentaries - cartoons, mottoes, zany poems, defiant sayings, parodies, funny faxes, ethnic slurs, and crude jokes - on all of the issues and problems facing the modern world. No one and nothing escapes their raunchy wit and sarcasm. The creation and dissemination of the "photocopylore" in this volume have been greatly stimulated and facilitated by the advent of E-Mail and the FAX machine. Increased use of home computers, scanners, clip art, and CD-ROMs have provided individuals with the ability to generate graphic materials often beyond their normal technical capacity and skills. The collected materials in "Sometimes the Dragon Wins" emphatically prove that the rise of science and technology, rather than precipitating the demise of folklore in the modern world, has actually spawned a new generation of folklore - FAX, copier and computer humour.