RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 El poder desmitificador de la risa en las novelas de Barbara Pym A1 Díaz Bild, María Aída AB Bakhtin, one of the leading thinkers and literary critics of the twentiethcentury, always defended the important role of laughter in the novel.For the comic mode nothing is eternal or stable, everything can andmust be renewed. The notion of an absolute and indisputable truth isrejected. This explains why one of the main functions of laughter is tomock institutional mystiques and orthodoxies. The aim of this essay isto show that Pym’s novels are not trivial works of art, but irreverent andopen-ended texts that destroy the mystique that surrounds the academicworld in particular and other professions in general. PB Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de La Laguna SN e-2530-8335 YR 1997 FD 1997 LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/30562 UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/30562 LA es DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna RD 17-jun-2024