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