Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

the staff of McGill University, Montreal, as professor of politics and economics. Leacock's career as a humorist began when he had some comic pieces published as Literary Lapses in 1910. This successful book was followed by two more books of comic sketches, Nonsense Novels (1911) and

Stephen Butler Leacock (1869-1944) is a Canadian author. He will long be remembered for his best-selling book Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912) as well as the numerous awards and honours he received during his illustrious lifetime as author, professor, lecturer and humourist. Leacock published Literary Lapses in 1910, with the financial assistance of his brother George. It is a best-of compilation of his previously published writings. It sold out quickly and propelled Leacock into being

Stratford Festival Company in the 1950s, acting alongside Alec Guinness, and appeared in the first production of Thornton Wilder's ‘The Matchmaker’ at the Edinburgh Festival. He also played Peter Pupkin in Sunshine Sketches, the CBC Television adaptation of Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.

The genre of local colour writing is devoted to capturing the unique customs, manners, speech, folklore, character types and setting that are unique and exemplary of specific communities, usually in humorous short stories. William H. Magee claims that the local colour genre “gripped Canadian literature” (77). Canadians, with our history of especially strong connection to community, have been very fond of the genre because of its celebration of strong communal ties. Canadian authors in turn-of-the-twentieth-century

Humor is the quality of being amusing or comic. Humor changes whenever comedy subjects change. For example, comedians only put out topics that are taboo in society, which makes their audience laugh. Once that certain taboo subject becomes more public, people start to lose interest and begin to laugh at more taboo topics. Comedy emerged soon after the American Revolution in both written and spoken forms. Now, there are three types of humor: American humor, usually targeting US events; British humor

Boredom, too, can be remedied by offering a selection. While much Canadian literature does follow the dry humor of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, classrooms have plenty of engaging options set across the globe: Life of Pi, The Sisters Brothers, The Handmaid’s Tale, or The Book of Negroes, for example. Amy von Heyking published a study in 2006 illustrating the importance of local

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