At whom are we laughing? : humor in Romance language literatures / edited by Zenia Sacks DaSilva and Gregory M. Pell.

Includes bibliographical references.

Part iv.castiglione and cicero; 'ridentem dicere verum'; inside jokes and trivialized space; parodies via the new testamentin lazarillo de tormes; invective and humor in the poetryof dante and cecco angiolieri; v; humor and identity in pancho guerra'slos cuentos famosos de pepemonagasand in cho juaá's illustrations; parodies of don juan in the talesof clarín and galdós; postmodernism and humorin sindo saavedra's cuento, luego existo; "with a jeer i replied"; vi; the sanity of the insane; milan kundera and severo sarduy; narratorial irony and textual parody.

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.

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They say that laughter is a purely human phenomenon, so exclusively ours that we brook no intruders except, of course, for the laughing hyena, the laughing jackass (officially known as the kookaburra bird of Australia), laughing matters, laughing gas, or the perennial laughing stock. But what is humor, that funny thing so varied in its colors and tones, so encompassing in its themes, so different from time to time and place to place? And when we poke fun, at whom are we really laughing? At W ...

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