Mr Matthew Hilborn matthew.hilborn@durham.ac.uk
PGR Student Doctor of Philosophy
Grey Humour: The Comedy of Tedium in Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio's El Jarama (1955)
Hilborn, Matthew
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Abstract
This article presents an innovative reading of humour within the classic Spanish postwar novel, El Jarama by Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio (1955), typically deemed dispassionate, solemn, and deadly serious. Grounding its interpretation in Humour Studies, it explores undercurrents of desolate, almost deliberately non-funny amusement that encourage stifled laughter from bleak situations, before immediately questioning the veracity and appropriateness of mirthful reactions. It coins new ways of understanding bathetic, grim comedy, based on situations usually interpreted as being mirthless: sluggish ‘grey humour’, originating fundamentally, and paradoxically, in boredom; ‘comic-kazi’, a backfiring, debilitating, anti-comic funniness; and ‘hardship humour’, amusement based on privation.
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Hilborn, M. (2022). Grey Humour: The Comedy of Tedium in Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio's El Jarama (1955). Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 99(1), 81-111. https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2021.2020004
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jun 11, 2021 |
Online Publication Date | Feb 14, 2022 |
Publication Date | 2022 |
Deposit Date | Jul 5, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | May 25, 2022 |
Journal | Bulletin of Spanish Studes |
Print ISSN | 1475-3820 |
Electronic ISSN | 1478-3428 |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis Group |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 99 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 81-111 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2021.2020004 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1245631 |
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