At Whom Are We Laughing? - Humor in Romance Language Literatures (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)

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 Whom Are We Laughing? Humor in Romance Language Literatures is the selective product of a multi-national gathering of scholars sponsored by Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, to explore humor across the centuries in the literatures of Italy, France, Romania, the Iberian Peninsula and its diaspora. The volume contains thirty-one scholarly and interpretative papers on diverse aspects of their wit, provocative aspects that are, for the most part, little known to the general reader. Precisely because of its scope and diversity, its appeal should extend beyond academia into the libraries of the intellectually curious, be they English speakers or not, be they specialists in humanities, psychology, society and culture, or merely interested amateurs who frequent the many new humor societies and clubs that abound in the world of today.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2013
First published:	July 2013
Editors:	Zenia Sacks Dasilva • Gregory M. Pell
Dimensions:	212 x 148 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - With dust jacket
Pages:	411
Edition:	Unabridged edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4438-4797-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN:	1-4438-4797-6
Barcode:	9781443847971

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