At whom are we laughing?
Subtitle: humor in Romance language literatures
By: edited by Zenia Sacks DaSilva and Gregory M. Pell
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9781443847971
Subjects: Romance literature; History and criticism; Humor in literature; Comic, The, in literature; Black humor
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: From the Romance lands: farce as life-blood of the theatre / Jessica Milner Davis; title: French comic heroes / John Parkin; title: The subversion of empire as farce in Fernao Mendes Pinto's Peregrinaçao / Steven Gonzagowski; title: The transgressive ethics of the trickster in late medieval and post-Reformation French farce / Bruce Hayes; title: A case of medical satire as therapy in colonial Peru: Diente del Parnaso by Juan del Valle y Caviedes / Paul W. Seaver; title: Picaresque humor in Don Quijote / Robert S. Stone; title: Estebanillo González and the comic art of the buffoon / Manuel Galofaro; title: Macabre humor and modern paradox in Gracián's Court of death / Yun Shao; title: Laughing at learned women in the medieval French farce / Lisa Perfetti; title: Sex, violence, and the holy: aspects of humor in medieval narrative / Stefano Mula; title: Casting about: self-fashioning and parody in Teresa de la Parra's Iphigenia / RoseAnna Mueller; title: Staging ridicule: Ana Istarú and Diana Raznovich debunking gender practice / Gisela Norat; title: Castiglione and Cicero: wit and laughter in The book of the courtier / Paul Shulten; title: "Ridentem dicere verum": the role of laughter in the Satyres chrestiennes de la cuisine papale / Bernd Renner; title: Inside jokes and trivialized space: the chancery of the Palazzo Vecchio and the bathos of Machiavelli's Florentine histories / Paul Wright; title: Parodies via the New Testament in Lazarillo de Tormes / Kevin S. Larsen; title: Invective and humor in the poetry of Dante and Cecco Angiolieri / Nicolino Applauso; title: Humor and identity in Pancho Guerra's Los cuentos famosos de Pepe Monagas and in Cho-Juaá's illustrations / María Jesús Vera Cazorla; title: Parodies of Don Juan in the Tales of Clarín and Galdós / María Montoya; title: Postmodernism and humor in Cuento, luego existo by Sindo Saavedra / Dolores Martín-Armas; title: "With a jeer I replied": laughter in Rimbaud's poetry / Myriam Krepps; title: The sanity of the insane: humor and "humorismo" in Ramón Gómez de la Serna / Ana León Távora; title: Milan Kundera and Severo Sarduy: on the matter of kitsch / Rolando Pérez; title: Narratorial irony and textual parody / Patricia Han; title: The ludic utopias of Gerardo Diego's ultraist poetry / Judith Stallings-Ward; title: After the curtain: dark humor in the new Romanian drama / Saviana Stanescu; title: Galician "retranca" gone green: humor on the Pestige oil spill / Isabel Castro-Vázquez; title: What's so funny about wartime exile? / Christine Ann Evans; title: Three shades of laughter: the comic art of Mendoza, Sorrentino and Garibay / Zenia Sacks DaSilva; title: Commonplaces of language: horns and death in Achille Campanile / Gregory M. Pell; title: The grotesque and verisimilitude in Dario Fo's theatre / Marco Valleriani.