Spanish Laughter: Humor and Its Sense in Modern Spain, Antonio Calvo Maturana

Автор: Browne Sebastian
Название: Medicine and Conflict: The Spanish Civil War and Its Traumatic Legacy
ISBN: 0367587645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367587642
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book focuses on an important but neglected aspect of the Spanish Civil War, the evolution of medical and surgical care of the wounded during the conflict. Importantly, the focus is from a mainly Spanish perspective - as the Spanish are given a voice in their own story which has not always been the case. Central to the book is General Franco

Автор: Martin-Estudillo Luis
Название: The Rise of Euroskepticism: Europe and Its Critics in Spanish Culture
ISBN: 0826521940 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826521941
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Covering from 1915 to the present, this book deals with the role that artists and intellectuals have played regarding projects of European integration. Consciously or not, they partake of a tradition of Euroskepticism. Because Euroskepticism is often associated with the discourse of political elites, its literary and artistic expressions have gone largely unnoticed. This book addresses that gap.Taking Spain as a case study, author Luis Martín-Estudillo analyzes its conflict over its own Europeanness or exceptionalism, as well as the European view of Spain. He ranges from canonical writers like Unamuno, Ortega y Gasset, and Zambrano to new media artists like Valeriano López, Carlos Spottorno, and Santiago Sierra. Martín-Estudillo provides a new context for the current refugee crisis, the North-South divide among EU countries, and the generalized disaffection toward the project of European integration.The eclipsed critical tradition he discusses contributes to a deeper understanding of the notion of Europe and its institutional embodiments. It gives resonance to the intellectual and cultural history of Europe's ""peripheries"" and re-evaluates Euroskeptic contributions as one of the few hopes left to imagine ways to renew the promise of a union of the European nations.

Автор: Foka A., Liliequist J.
Название: Laughter, Humor, and the (Un)Making of Gender: Historical and Cultural Perspectives
ISBN: 1349501395 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349501397
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Humor is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. Throughout history, it has played a crucial role in defining gender roles and identities. This collection offers an in-depth thematic examination of this relationship between humor and gender, spanning a variety of historical and cultural backdrops.

Автор: Nwosu, Maik
Название: Comic imagination in modern african literature and cinema
ISBN: 1138942669 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138942660
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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This book is a seminal study that significantly expands the interdisciplinary discourse on African literature and cinema by exploring Africa's under-visited carnivalesque poetics of laughter. Focusing on modern African literature as well as contemporary African cinema, particularly the direct-to-video Nigerian film industry known as Nollywood, the book examines the often-neglected aesthetics of the African comic imagination. In modern African literature, which sometimes creatively traces a path back to African folklore, and in Nollywood -- with its aesthetic relationship to Onitsha Market Literature -- the pertinent styles range from comic simplicitas to comic magnitude with the facilitation of language, characterization, and plot by a poetics of laughter or lightness as an important aspect of style. The poetics at work is substantially carnivalesque, a comic preference or tendency that is attributable, in different contexts, to a purposeful comic sensibility or an unstructured but ingrained or virtual comic mode. In the best instances of this comic vision, the characteristic laughter or lightness can facilitate a revaluation or reappreciation of the world, either because of the aesthetic structure of signification or the consequent chain of signification. This referentiality or progressive signification is an important aspect of the poetics of laughter as the African comic imagination variously reflects, across genres, both the festival character of comedy and its pedagogical value. This book marks an important contribution to African literature, postcolonial literature, world literature, comic imagination, poetics, critical theory, and African cinema.

Автор: Wickberg Daniel
Название: The Senses of Humor: Self and Laughter in Modern America
ISBN: 0801456665 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801456664
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Why do modern Americans believe in something called a sense of humor and how did they come to that belief? Daniel Wickberg traces the cultural history of the concept from its British origins as a way to explore new conceptions of the self and social order in modern America. More than simply the history of an idea, Wickberg's study provides new insights into a peculiarly modern cultural sensibility.The expression "sense of humor" was first coined in the 1840s and the idea that such a sense was a personality trait to be valued developed only in the 1870s. What is the relationship between Medieval humoral medicine and this distinctively modern idea of the sense of humor? What has it meant in the past 125 years to declare that someone lacks a sense of humor? How is the joke, as a twentieth-century quasi-literary form, different from the traditional folktale? Wickberg addresses these questions, among others, using the history of ideas to throw new light on the way contemporary Americans think and speak.The context of Wickberg's analysis is Anglo-American; the specifically British meanings of humor and laughter from the sixteenth century forward provide the framework for understanding American cultural values in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The genealogy of the sense of humor is, like the study of keywords, an avenue into a significant aspect of the cultural history of modernity. Drawing on a wide range of sources and disciplinary perspectives, Wickberg's analysis challenges many of the prevailing views of modern American culture and suggests a new model for cultural historians.

Автор: A. Foka; J. Liliequist
Название: Laughter, Humor, and the (Un)making of Gender
ISBN: 1137473304 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137473301
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Humor is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. Throughout history, it has played a crucial role in defining gender roles and identities. This collection offers an in-depth thematic examination of this relationship between humor and gender, spanning a variety of historical and cultural backdrops.

Автор: Magnussen Anne
Название: Spanish Comics: Historical and Cultural Perspectives
ISBN: 178920996X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789209969
Издательство: Berghahn
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Цена: 113250.00 T
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Spanish comics represent an exciting and diverse field, yet one that is often overlooked outside of Spain. Spanish Comics offers an overview on contemporary scholarship on Spanish comics, focusing on a wide range of comics dating from the Francoist dictatorship, 1939-1975; the Political Transition, 1970-1985; and Democratic Spain since the early 1980s including the emergence of the graphic novel in 2000. Touching on themes of memory, gender, regional identities, and history, the chapters in this collection demonstrate the historical and cultural significance of Spanish comics.

Автор: Magnussen Anne
Название: Spanish Comics: Historical and Cultural Perspectives
ISBN: 1789209978 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789209976
Издательство: Berghahn
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Spanish comics represent an exciting and diverse field, yet one that is often overlooked by scholars outside of Spain. Spanish Comics offers an overview on contemporary scholarship on Spanish comics, focusing on a wide range of comics dating from early comics history in 1875-1939; the Francoist dictatorship, 1939-1975; the Political Transition, 1970-1985; and Democratic Spain from the early 1980s. Touching on themes of memory, gender, regional identities, and history, the chapters in this collection demonstrate the historical and cultural significance of Spanish comics, particularly as it relates to transnational and memory studies.

Название: Hesitancy and Experimentation in Enlightenment Spain and Spanish America
ISBN: 113838299X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138382992
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This thematically unified volume of twelve original studies by international specialists focuses on the culture and theatre of Spain and its New World colonies during the eighteenth-century Age of Reason. This book was published as a special issue of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies.

Автор: Nicolas Fernandez-Medina
Название: Life Embodied: The Promise of Vital Force in Spanish Modernity
ISBN: 0773553371 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780773553378
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The concept of vital force – the immanent energy that promotes the processes of life in the body and in nature – has proved a source of endless fascination and controversy. Indeed, the question of what vitalizes the body has haunted humanity since antiquity, and became even more pressing during the Scientific Revolution and beyond. Examining the complexities and theories about vital force in Spanish modernity, Nicol?s Fern?ndez-Medina's Life Embodied offers a novel and provocative assessment of the question of bodily life in Spain. Starting with Juan de Cabriada's landmark Carta filos?fica, m?dico-chymica of 1687 and ending with Ram?n G?mez de la Serna's avant-gardism of the 1910s, Fern?ndez-Medina incorporates discussions of anatomy, philosophy, science, critical theory, history of medicine, and literary studies to argue that concepts of vital force served as powerful vehicles to interrogate the possibilities and limits of corporeality. Paying close attention to how the body's capabilities were conceived and strategically woven into critiques of modernity, Fern?ndez-Medina engages the work of Miguel Boix y Moliner, Mart?n Mart?nez, Diego de Torres Villarroel, Sebasti?n Guerrero Herreros, Ignacio Mar?a Ruiz de Luzuriaga, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Pedro Mata y Fontanet, ?ngela Grassi, Juli?n Sanz del R?o, Miguel de Unamuno, and P?o Baroja, among others. Drawing on extensive research and analysis, Life Embodied breaks new ground as the first book to address the question of vital force in Spanish modernity.

Автор: Baigorri-jalon, Jesus (university Of Salamanca, Spain)
Название: Languages in the crossfire
ISBN: 0367703459 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367703455
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book sheds light on the important role played by interpreters during the Spanish Civil War, offering a historical overview of the ways in which interpreters on both sides mediated the myriad linguistic, cultural, and ethical difficulties of wartime communication.

Автор: Shelagh Rowan-Legg
Название: The Spanish Fantastic: Contemporary Filmmaking in Horror, Fantasy and Sci-fi
ISBN: 135024242X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350242425
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: In recent decades, the Spanish 'fantastic' has been at the forefront of genre filmmaking. Films such as The Day of the Beast, the Rec trilogy, The Orphanage and Timecrimes have received widespread attention and popularity, arguably rescuing Spanish cinema from its semi-invisibility during the creativity-crushing Franco years. By turns daring, evocative, outrageous, and intense, this new cinema has given voice to a generation, both beholden to and yet breaking away from their historical and cultural roots. Beginning in the 1990s, films from directors such as Alex de la Iglesia, Alejandro Amenabar, and Jaume Balaguero reinvigorated Spanish cinema in the horror, science fiction and fantasy veins as their work proliferated and took centre stage at international festivals such as Sitges, Fantasia International Film Festival and Fantastic Fest. Through an examination of key films and filmmakers, Shelagh Rowan-Legg here investigates the rise of this unique new wave of genre films from Spain, and how they have recycled, reshaped and renewed the stunning visual tropes, wild narratives and imaginative other worlds inherent to an increasingly influential cinematic field.Its emergence is part of a new trend of postnational cinema, led by the fantastic, which approaches the national boundaries of cinema with an exciting sense of fluidity.