An edition of At whom are we laughing? (2013)

At whom are we laughing?

humor in Romance language literatures

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At whom are we laughing?

humor in Romance language literatures

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Table of Contents

From the Romance lands: farce as life-blood of the theatre / Jessica Milner Davis
French comic heroes / John Parkin
The subversion of empire as farce in Fernao Mendes Pinto's Peregrinaçao / Steven Gonzagowski
The transgressive ethics of the trickster in late medieval and post-Reformation French farce / Bruce Hayes
A case of medical satire as therapy in colonial Peru: Diente del Parnaso by Juan del Valle y Caviedes / Paul W. Seaver
Picaresque humor in Don Quijote / Robert S. Stone
Estebanillo González and the comic art of the buffoon / Manuel Galofaro
Macabre humor and modern paradox in Gracián's Court of death / Yun Shao
Laughing at learned women in the medieval French farce / Lisa Perfetti
Sex, violence, and the holy: aspects of humor in medieval narrative / Stefano Mula
Casting about: self-fashioning and parody in Teresa de la Parra's Iphigenia / RoseAnna Mueller
Staging ridicule: Ana Istarú and Diana Raznovich debunking gender practice / Gisela Norat
Castiglione and Cicero: wit and laughter in The book of the courtier / Paul Shulten
"Ridentem dicere verum": the role of laughter in the Satyres chrestiennes de la cuisine papale / Bernd Renner
Inside jokes and trivialized space: the chancery of the Palazzo Vecchio and the bathos of Machiavelli's Florentine histories / Paul Wright
Parodies via the New Testament in Lazarillo de Tormes / Kevin S. Larsen
Invective and humor in the poetry of Dante and Cecco Angiolieri / Nicolino Applauso
Humor and identity in Pancho Guerra's Los cuentos famosos de Pepe Monagas and in Cho-Juaá's illustrations / María Jesús Vera Cazorla
Parodies of Don Juan in the Tales of Clarín and Galdós / María Montoya
Postmodernism and humor in Cuento, luego existo by Sindo Saavedra / Dolores Martín-Armas
"With a jeer I replied": laughter in Rimbaud's poetry / Myriam Krepps
The sanity of the insane: humor and "humorismo" in Ramón Gómez de la Serna / Ana León Távora
Milan Kundera and Severo Sarduy: on the matter of kitsch / Rolando Pérez
Narratorial irony and textual parody / Patricia Han
The ludic utopias of Gerardo Diego's ultraist poetry / Judith Stallings-Ward
After the curtain: dark humor in the new Romanian drama / Saviana Stanescu
Galician "retranca" gone green: humor on the Pestige oil spill / Isabel Castro-Vázquez
What's so funny about wartime exile? / Christine Ann Evans
Three shades of laughter: the comic art of Mendoza, Sorrentino and Garibay / Zenia Sacks DaSilva
Commonplaces of language: horns and death in Achille Campanile / Gregory M. Pell
The grotesque and verisimilitude in Dario Fo's theatre / Marco Valleriani.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

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Library of Congress
PN810.H86 A8 2013

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Pagination
xx, 391 p.
Number of pages
391

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Open Library
OL55142647M
ISBN 10
1443847976
ISBN 13
9781443847971
OCLC/WorldCat
848162440

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OL40555712W

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