James Thurber

James Thurber Criticism

• Thurber, James (Vol. 5)
• Thurber, James (Grover)
  • Introduction
  • Thurber Perfects Mind Cure
  • Introduction
  • The Baum Tradition
  • Amusements and Diversions from the Thurber Carnival
  • A Touch of Thurber
  • Chiming and Striking
  • 'The Great Party of the Twenties Seemed to End Too Soon for Him'
  • Coming to Terms with the Eye
• Thurber, James (Vol. 125)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • If There Is No Human Comedy, It Will Be Necessary to Create One
    • Thurber's Last Collection
    • Three of a School
    • Christian Parody in Thurber's 'You Could Look It Up'
    • The Comic Anti-Hero in American Fiction: Its First Full Articulation
    • Laughter Improves Everything
    • Review of Selected Letters of James Thurber
    • Thurber's 'The Catbird Seat'
    • 'The Black, Memorable Year 1929': James Thurber and The Great Depression
    • James Thurber and the Hazards of Humor
    • The Business of Being Funny
    • Laughter in the Dark
    • A Thimbleful of Thurber
    • From the Thurber Trove: Good Humor, Good Always
    • The Cottage of Smugness
  • Further Reading
• Thurber, James (Vol. 11)
  • Introduction
  • No Nonsense
  • James Thurber: Artist in Humor
  • One Man's Thurber
• Thurber, James
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • Men and Animals: James Thurber and the Conversion of a Literary Genre
    • Christian Parody in Thurber's ‘You Could Look It Up’
    • Stumbling Dogtracks on the Sands of Time: Thurber's Less-than-Charming Animals, and Animal Portraits in Earlier American Humor
    • Coitus Interruptis: Sexual Symbolism in ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’
    • Walter Mitty and Lord Jim
    • The Further Range: Thurber's Other Stories
    • The Secret Sin of Walter Mitty
    • ‘Things Close In’: Dissolution and Misanthropy in ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’