The essays selected for inclusion in this volume derive from the first international conference solely dedicated to the study of Hispanic humor, which took place September 29-30, 1995, in Philadelphia, PA. The essays deal with manifestations of humor in literature, film, cartoons, linguistics, art, and popular culture, and treat themes from the Middle Ages to the present in Spain, Latin America, and the United States. The scope of this collection affirms the important role of humor in Hispanic culture, a topic which had been previously been under appreciated in Hispanic studies.
- Cover
- Advisory Board
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Juan Luis Vives’ Concept of Laughtet, por Vera Cecilia Machline
- Her Weapon of Choice: A Sharp-Tongued Wit Elizabeth Boretz
- Ir por lana: Justina Diez y el mecanismo del burlador burlado Louis Imperiale
- Laughter at Court and in the Convent: The Wit of SOl’ Juana Ines de la Cruz Julie Greer Johnson
- La "deshumanizaciiin" de la comedia y Jardiel Poncela M. Montserrat Alas-Brun
- El humor del amor encarcelado en las co medias de J. L. Alonso de Santos Gary E. Bigelow
- La vena humoristica de Isabel Allende: De periodista a escritora y veinticinco aiios de humor Cecilia Novella
- Laughter as Metanarrative?: Alfredo Bryce Echenique’s First Novel and the Further Reaches of Postmodernism I Alita Kelley
- Illusory Humor: Oscar Hijuelos’ Images of the Montez O’Briens Christine Cotton
- Ana Lydia Vega, Alicia, Freud y Yo en el Pais del Ceno Maravilla Maria del C. Cerezo
- Grim(m) Reality in Luisa Valenzuela’s Simetrias Catherine R. Perricone
- i,De que se rien los espanoles despues de Franco? Una mirada a la Iiteratura humoristica en la Espana actual Ines Arribas
- Carnivalesque Humor in Fernando Trueba’s Belle epoque Thomas Deveny
- "Dis torsion humoristica del comic: post-modernidad ludic a de Paradox, Rey" Matias Montes Huidobro
- Lenguaje y humor: Aspectos sociolingiiisticos en el estilo humoristico Isabel Gonzalez Cruz
- De Mafalda a Boogie: la ciudad y el humor argentino Hector D. Fernandez L’Hoeste
- Humor Y Subversion en Ia Phistica Cubana Jana Cazalla
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