Humoring Resistance
Humoring Resistance

Author: Dianna C. Niebylski

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 0791484955

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Contextualizing theoretical debates about the political uses of gendered humor and female excess, this book explores bold new ways in which a number of contemporary Latin American women authors approach questions of identity and community. The author examines the connections among strategic uses of humor, women's bodies, and resistance in works of fiction by Laura Esquivel, Ana Lydia Vega, Luisa Valenzuela, Armonía Somers, and Alicia Borinsky. She shows how the interarticulation of the comic and comic-grotesque vision with different types of excessive female bodies can result in new configurations of female subjectivity.

Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation
Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation

Author: Sarah Emanuel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-01-09

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1108757308

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Empire-critical and postcolonial readings of Revelation are now commonplace, but scholars have not yet put these views into conversation with Jewish trauma and cultural survival strategies. In this book, Sarah Emanuel positions Revelation within its ancient Jewish context. Proposing a new reading of Revelation, she demonstrates how the text's author, a first century CE Jewish Christ-follower, used humor as a means of resisting Roman power. Emanuel uses multiple critical lenses, including humor, trauma, and postcolonial theory, together with historical-critical methods. These approaches enable a deeper understanding of the Jewishness of the early Christ-centered movement, and how Jews in antiquity related to their cultural and religious identity. Emanuel's volume offers new insights and fills a gap in contemporary scholarship on Revelation and biblical scholarship more broadly.

Humoring the Body
Humoring the Body

Author: Gail Kern Paster

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2010-11-15

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 0226648486

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Though modern readers no longer believe in the four humors of Galenic naturalism—blood, choler, melancholy, and phlegm—early modern thought found in these bodily fluids key to explaining human emotions and behavior. In Humoring the Body, Gail Kern Paster proposes a new way to read the emotions of the early modern stage so that contemporary readers may recover some of the historical particularity in early modern expressions of emotional self-experience. Using notions drawn from humoral medical theory to untangle passages from important moral treatises, medical texts, natural histories, and major plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Paster identifies a historical phenomenology in the language of affect by reconciling the significance of the four humors as the language of embodied emotion. She urges modern readers to resist the influence of post-Cartesian abstraction and the disembodiment of human psychology lest they miss the body-mind connection that still existed for Shakespeare and his contemporaries and constrained them to think differently about how their emotions were embodied in a premodern world.

Focused Psychotherapy
Focused Psychotherapy

Author: Nick Cummings

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1135824169

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Focused Psychotherapy Offers practitioners an approach to psychotherapeutic treatment that is both financially viable and has sufficient clinical depth to assure genuine psychological growth. Providing a strikingly clear description of this approach, this volume enables psychotherapists to quickly hone in on the client's true agenda, therefore avoiding unnecessarily long and drawn out therapeutic work.

Focused Psychotherapy
Focused Psychotherapy

Author: Nicholas A. Cummings

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0876307896

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First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Comic Effects
Comic Effects

Author: Paul Lewis

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1989-08-15

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1438410700

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Lewis draws on both humor theories and research, arguing for the development of interdisciplinary methodologies in the study of literary humor. He demonstrates that the sociologist of humor and the comic playwright approach the same subject—humor in and between groups—with different tools, that writers of Bildungsromane and developmental psychologists share a common interest in the role of humor in maturation, and that the monsters that haunt the psyches of professional comedians can be useful in understanding the odd minglings of humor and fear in Gothic fiction. His treatment of writers who differ widely in their use of humor suggests that the complexity and diversity of humor make it a richly variable determinant of character, genre, and writer.

Cuban Studies 37
Cuban Studies 37

Author: Louis A. Pérez

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2006-10-17

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0822971089

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Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field. Widely praised for its interdisciplinary approach and trenchant analysis of an array of topics, each volume features the best scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Cuban Studies 37 includes articles on environmental law, economics, African influence in music, irreverent humor in postrevolutionary fiction, international education flow between the United States and Cuba, and poetry, among others. Beginning with volume 34 (2003), the publication is available electronically through Project MUSE®, an award-winning online database of full-text scholarly journals. More information can be found at http://muse.jhu.edu/publishers/pitt_press/.

Food Studies in Latin American Literature
Food Studies in Latin American Literature

Author: Rocío del Aguila

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

Published: 2021-12-01

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1610757548

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Food Studies in Latin American Literature presents a timely collection of essays analyzing a wide array of Latin American narratives through the lens of food studies. Topics explored include potato and maize in colonial and contemporary global narratives; the role of cooking in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s poetics; the centrality of desire in twentieth-century cooking writing by women; the relationship among food, recipes, and national identity; the role of food in travel narratives; and the impact of advertisements on domestic roles. The contributors included here—experts in Latin American history, literature, and cultural studies—bring a novel, interdisciplinary approach to these explorations, presenting new perspectives on Latin American literature and culture.