Spanish laughter : humor and its sense in modern Spain / edited by Antonio Calvo Maturana.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Calvo Maturana, Antonio Juan, editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Studies in Latin American and Spanish history ; v. 9.

Studies in Latin American and Spanish history ; volume 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish wit and humor--History and criticism.

Spanish wit and humor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 381 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, [2022]

Contents:

Introduction / Antonio Calvo Maturana

When Spaniards defied gravity: humor, seriousness and identity in eighteenth century Spain / Antonio Calvo Maturana

Disciplinary humour in the public sphere: the rhetorics of gender satire in José Clavijo Y Fajardo's El pensador / Sally-Ann Kitts

La vieja y la niña: women's humour in the comedies of María Rosa Gálvez / Elizabeth Franklin Lewis

When women are on top: humour, politics and pornography in Goya's Swings / Javier Moscoso

Goya ́s Caprichos and critical humour / Manuel Álvarez Junco

Satire and anti-liberal public opinion in Cadiz during the Cortes (1811-1813) / Gonzalo Butrón Prida

Humour, translation, and gender in 18th and 19th century Spain and Mexico / Catherine Jaffe

Humour in the political analysis of absolutism in Larra's articles (1828-1833) / José María Ferri Coll

'Long Live the joke': political satire and humour through the Valencian newspaper El Mole (1837) / Alejandro Llinares Planells

Monochatus non est pietas: anticlerical humour and political violence, c. 1750-1840 / Gregorio Alonso

Laughter, gender and the politics of celebrity in fin-de-siècle Spain: on Emilia Pardo Bazán / Isabel Burdiel

El gran bvfón: illustrated magazines, humour and caricature in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century / Miguel Ángel Gamonal Torres

Artistic parody, political criticism and Spanish humour (ca. 1900) / Carlos Reyero

The 'Moor', the 'Russian' and other invaders: satirical representations of national otherness in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) / Xosé M. Núñez Seixas

Smile for the homeland: humour and gender representations in radio programs during the first Franco regime (1939-1959) / Sergio Blanco Fajardo

The Developmentalist cinema of the sixties and the seventies: archetypes of gender, social change and the 'paleto' and 'destape' Phenomena / María Dolores Ramos

From classic to transgressive humour: the transformation of female humour in social media / Natalia Meléndez Malavé.<br>

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 15, 2022).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Spanish laughter

ISBN:

9781800735002

1800735006

Publisher Number:

40031175908

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.