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HUMOR International Journal of Humor Research Editor-in-Chief: Lawrence E. Mintz ISSN 0933-1719 Volume 13-4 (2000) Contents D G KEHL Varieties of risible experience: Grades of laughter in modern American literature AMY M BIPPUS Making sense of humor in young romantic relationships: Understanding partners' perceptions LAURA A TALBOT and D BARRY LUMDEN On the association between humor and burnout CHRIS HOLCOMB "A man in a painted garment": The social function of jesting in Elizabethan rhetoric and courtesy manuals DANIEL D PERLMUTTER Tracing the origin of humor Reply CHRISTIE DAVIES Questions of power and theory: A reply to Salvatore Attardo Book reviews PETER DERKS Alleen Pace Nilsen and Don L F Nilsen: Encyclopedia of 20th Century American Humor LISA COLLETTA Barbara Bennett: Comic Visions, Female Voices: Contemporary Women Novelists and Southern Humor CHRISTIE DAVIES Emil A Draitser: Taking Penguins to the Movies, Ethnic Humor in Russia ARTHUR ASA BERGER Robert A Gates: American Literary Humor During the Great Depression Newsletter Contents of Volume 13 (2000) For subscription information please contact the publisher: Mouton de Gruyter Genthiner Str. 13 10785 Berlin, Germany Fax: +49 30 26005 222 e-mail: ordersMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuedegruyter.de Journals and titles published by Mouton de Gruyter can be ordered via World Wide Web at: http://www.degruyter.com