Spanish Laughter

Author : Antonio Calvo Maturana
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800735002

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Spanish Laughter by Antonio Calvo Maturana Pdf

Presenting a cultural and interdisciplinary study of humor in Spain from the eighteenth century to the present day, this book examines how humour entered public life, how it attained a legitimacy to communicate ‘serious’ ideas in the Enlightenment and how this set the seed for the key position that humor occupies in society today. Through a range of case studies that run from Goya’s paintings, humor, and gender representations in radio programmes during the first Franco regime, developmentalist cinema of the sixties and seventies, to the transformation of female humor in social media, the book traces the core role that the comical has played in the public sphere. The contributors to this volume represent a wide range of disciplines including gender studies, humour studies and Hispanic studies and offer international perspectives on Spanish laughter.

Author : Johan Verberckmoes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349271764

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Laughter, Jestbooks and Society in the Spanish Netherlands by Johan Verberckmoes Pdf

Prior to the modern age laughter raised passions and activated the body to sweat and shake. Derision was not distinguished from joy. Deceiving the senses by tricks or funny stories made all people laugh loudly, regardless of class. Johan Verberckmoes describes, in this innovating book, the hotchpotch of comic images and stories in 'Flandes' during the rule of the Spanish Habsburgs, from 1500 to 1700. It challenges the Bakhtinian idea of a caesura in the history of laughter around 1600.

Author : Juan F. Egea
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299295431

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Dark Laughter by Juan F. Egea Pdf

In Dark Laughter, Juan F. Egea provides a remarkable in-depth analysis of the dark comedy film genre in Spain, as well as a provocative critical engagement with the idea of national cinema, the visual dimension of cultural specificity, and the ethics of dark humor. Egea begins his analysis with General Franco's dictatorship in the 1960s—a regime that opened the country to new economic forces while maintaining its repressive nature—exploring key works by Luis García Berlanga, Marco Ferreri, Fernando Fernán-Gómez, and Luis Buñuel. Dark Laughter then moves to the first films of Pedro Almodóvar in the early 1980s during the Spanish political transition to democracy before examining Alex de la Iglesia and the new dark comedies of the 1990s. Analyzing this younger generation of filmmakers, Egea traces dark comedy to Spain's displays of ultramodernity such as the Universal Exposition in Seville and the Barcelona Olympic Games. At its core, Dark Laughter is a substantial inquiry into the epistemology of comedy, the intricacies of visual modernity, and the relationship between cinema and a wider framework of representational practices.

Author : Lynn Johnston,Brenda Wegmann
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780071783651

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Laugh 'n' Learn Spanish by Lynn Johnston,Brenda Wegmann Pdf

Pictures and humor help readers build their Spanish language skills To its millions of fans, the Pattersons are just like their own families, facing universal issues among daily concerns. Containing a selection of 100 syndicated Spanish-language versions of the strip that is widely read in Latin America, Laugh 'n' Learn Spanish provides an entertaining and effective way to expand and polish conversational skills in Spanish. Readers learn by understanding and learning natural, everyday verbal interactions at home and about town, following John and Ell Patterson as they attempt to come to terms with middle age; daughter Elizabeth as she spreads her wings and goes off to college; son Michael dating and then marrying his childhood sweetheart, Deanna; daughter April as she rebels against discipline, anther grandpa who finds a second love in the autumn of his life. Each strip is graded by difficulty--Beginning, Moderate, or Challenging--and is accompanied by: Glosses that translate difficult vocabulary Usage notes to build proficiency A summarizing activity that tests comprehension Additional exercises for key idioms and word patterns appear at the end of each section

Author : Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez,Alison Ribeiro de Menezes,Adrian Shubert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350230422

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Spanish Civil War by Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez,Alison Ribeiro de Menezes,Adrian Shubert Pdf

In 25 innovative thematic essays, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Spanish Civil War sees an interdisciplinary team of scholars examine a conflict that, more than 80 years after its conclusion, continues to generate both scholarly and public controversy. Split into four main sections covering Military and Diplomatic Issues, Society and Culture, Politics, and Debates, the volume offers a number of unique features. It is unprecedented in its comprehensiveness and includes chapters on topics that are rarely, if ever, explored in the literature of the field: humanitarianism, children and families, material conditions, the decimation of elites, archives and sources, archaeological approaches, digital approaches, public history, and cultural studies approaches. Instead of discussing each of the two warring sides, Republicans and Francoists, separately, as is so often the case, the book's thematic structure means that these opposing forces are examined together, facilitating comparison and fresh understanding in numerous areas of study. Contributors from the UK, the USA, Canada, Spain and Denmark also analyse the major controversies and disputes surrounding each topic as part of a detailed exploration of one of the seminal events of the 20th century.

Author : Dr. Hope
Publisher : Alpine Publishing (CA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : 1885624603

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Laughing Day by Dr. Hope Pdf

A young lad learns a valuable lesson that he teaches to others. Written in both English and Spanish.

Author : Gerald Eugene Poyo,Tomás Ybarra-Frausto
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781611923711

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Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage by Gerald Eugene Poyo,Tomás Ybarra-Frausto Pdf

This volume of essays is the seventh in the series produced under the auspices of the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project at the University of Houston. This ongoing and comprehensive program seeks to locate, identify, preserve, and disseminate the literary contributions of U.S. Latinos from the Spanish Colonial Period to contemporary times. The eleven essays included in this volume examine key issues relevant to the exploration of Hispanic literary production in the United States, including cultural identity, exile thought, class and women's issues. Originally presented at the ninth biennial conference of the Recovery Project, "Encuentros y Reencuentros: Making Common Ground," held in in collaboration with the Western Historical Association's annual meeting in 2006, the essays are divided into four sections: "History, Culture and Ideology;" "Women's Voices: Gender, Politics and Culture;" "Amparo Ruiz de Burton: Literature and History;" and "Language Representation and Translation." The work of scholars involved in making available the written record of Hispanic populations in the U.S. is critical for any comprehensive understanding of the U.S. experience, particularly in the West where the country's history is intricately linked with that of Hispanic peoples since the sixteenth century. In their introduction, editors Gerald Poyo and Tomas Ybarra-Frausto outline the goals and challenges of the Recovery Project to promote scholarly collaboration in the integration of research and recovered Hispanic texts in various disciplines, including history and Latina/o studies.

Author : Nicholas Panagakos
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781462859801

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Laughter You See by Nicholas Panagakos Pdf

Laughter You See is author Nicholas Panagakos ́ first public release. It is a collection gathered from three notebooks containing various interpretations and observations of strange experiences that he had witnessed over time. Structured mostly with phonetic clusters and examples describing strange incidents from 2007-2010.

Author : Angel María García Gómez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : IND:39000000198122

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The Legend of the Laughing Philosopher and Its Presence in Spanish Literature, 1500-1700 by Angel María García Gómez Pdf

Author : Charles Harrison
Publisher : Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783954895281

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Difficulties of translating humour: From English into Spanish using the subtitled British comedy sketch show "Little Britain" as a case study by Charles Harrison Pdf

Humour is a complex concept which tends to build on the ambiguity of language. When converting a humoristic program into a different language, the translator thus faces many challenges. One of these is the translation of cultural aspects of the TL (target language). Since every culture contains its unique form of humour, understanding the humour within a culture and all its cultural elements is essential to producing an adequate translation. The study at hand focuses on the translation of the British comedy-sketch show Little Britain analyzing how it has been converted from its SL (source language), which is English, to its TL, which in this study will be Spanish. It proved to be highly constructive for the purposes of this research as the humour is often very culture-specific and thus difficult to translate. For the benefit of the reader, the first part of this dissertation is going to discuss various theories of humour. Moreover, it will discuss how humour is created in the comedy sketch show Little Britain. As subtitles will be used for the analysis of the case study, limitations and constraints will be discussed as the translator cannot merely focus on the linguistic features and possible problems like she/he would do in any other form of translation. Using Attardo’s theory (1994), the study aims to explore aspects that create difficulties during the translation process, always in relation to humour that is seen in a comedy sketch show. It explores the translation of humour, examining potential problems that translators need to overcome and expands on this by investigating the difficulties that arise when translating culture-specific issues. In addition, as this is an audiovisual translation, potential problems that become relevant in the case study are highlighted. The study highlights the difficulties a translator faces within the process and, where relevant, possible alternative strategies that the translator could have applied in the translation process.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : CUB:U183034913798

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ryan D. Giles
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442697096

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The Laughter of the Saints by Ryan D. Giles Pdf

Between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spain, a large number of parodic works were produced that featured depictions of humourous, satirical, and comical saints. The Laughter of the Saints examines this rich carnivalesque tradition of parodied holy men and women and traces their influence to the anti-heroes and picaresque roots of early modern novels such as Don Quixote. The first full-length treatment of the ways in which Spanish writers imitated religious depictions of saints' lives for comic purposes, Ryan D. Giles' erudite study explores the inversion of oaths, invocations, pious legends, and liturgical devotions. Analyzing a variety of texts from Libro de buen amor, to later works such as the Celestina, Carajicomedia, Lozana andaluza, and Lazarillo de Tormes, Giles not only sheds light on Golden Age Spanish literature, but also on the origins of the comic novel. A well-argued and convincing work, The Laughter of the Saints reveals the uproarious results of the collision of official and unofficial methods of storytelling.

Author : Monica Hanna,Jennifer Harford Vargas,José David Saldívar
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822374763

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Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination by Monica Hanna,Jennifer Harford Vargas,José David Saldívar Pdf

The first sustained critical examination of the work of Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz, this interdisciplinary collection considers how Díaz's writing illuminates the world of Latino cultural expression and trans-American and diasporic literary history. Interested in conceptualizing Díaz's decolonial imagination and his radically re-envisioned world, the contributors show how his aesthetic and activist practice reflect a significant shift in American letters toward a hemispheric and planetary culture. They examine the intersections of race, Afro-Latinidad, gender, sexuality, disability, poverty, and power in Díaz's work. Essays in the volume explore issues of narration, language, and humor in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the racialized constructions of gender and sexuality in Drown and This Is How You Lose Her, and the role of the zombie in the short story "Monstro." Collectively, they situate Díaz’s writing in relation to American and Latin American literary practices and reveal the author’s activist investments. The volume concludes with Paula Moya's interview with Díaz. Contributors: Glenda R. Carpio, Arlene Dávila, Lyn Di Iorio, Junot Díaz, Monica Hanna, Jennifer Harford Vargas, Ylce Irizarry, Claudia Milian, Julie Avril Minich, Paula M. L. Moya, Sarah Quesada, José David Saldívar, Ramón Saldívar, Silvio Torres-Saillant, Deborah R. Vargas

Author : Humor Vibes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1712092219

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I Can Laugh in English and Spanish by Humor Vibes Pdf

This funny Notebook is the best gift for bilingual people or spanish teachers. It has: Glossy finish in the softcover White lined paper in the interior 118 lined pages to write in 2 blank pages to write your information or add stickers 6x9 in. (15x23 cm.), perfect to carry everywhere If You're looking for a funny gift for your bilingual or spanish teacher friend or relative this is for You. If You are the bilingual or spanish teacher, You'll get a lot of compliments with it.

Author : Juan Felipe Herrera
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0780428889

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Laughing Out Loud, I Fly by Juan Felipe Herrera Pdf