Spanish Laughter Brandon Olson

Spanish Laughter Brandon OlsonPresenting 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 Goyas paintings, humor, and gender representations in radio programmes during

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