At whom are we laughing? : humor in Romance language literatures /
Da Silva, Zenia Sacks.
Pell, Gregory M.(Gregory Michael)
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2013
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Romance literature
Humor in literature.
Comic, The, in literature.
Black humor.