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In the present article the author studies the importance of irony in Llorenç Villalonga’s work using as a touchstone the novel «Flo la Vigne». In the first place he analyzes the conception of irony that the writer has: a tool for approaching the world and a virtue that characterizes the person or the civilization that possesses it. Secondly, he examines the practice of irony in the aforesaid novel: verbal irony (antiphrasis, paradox, «reductio ad absurdum»...) and the narratologic irony in a wide sense, including the paratextual and the intertextual one. Special attention is paid to the conception of transmitter of information, which has diverse voices and narrative levels. Finally, it relates Villalonga’s irony to modern irony.

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How can we foster ethical professional behavior in communication students? In order to answer this question, this article describes how a TV series was used in university teaching as a learning tool. This article consists of three sections: first, university teaching is presented as the context and professional ethics as the curricular space where the proposal is developed; second, we show why the use of TV dramas, besides motivating student interest, facilitates the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and ethical attitudes; third, we describe the use of a TV series, The newsroom, in the classroom and some testimonies that demonstrate the effectiveness of the strategy for the understanding of the subject content.

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Abstract: This paper aims to study the importance of irony in Carles Soldevila by analysing his novel Valentina, published in 1933. Firstly, the author’s concept of irony is described. Then, we move on to check the use of irony in Valentina by considering: the narrator’s irony, irony of situation, verbal irony, gestural irony and hypertextual irony or parody. The narrator’s irony and verbal irony appear to be the most decisive: the former allows us to see the use of the narrator’s ironic detachment toward the characters; the latter shows the large variety of rhetorical resources used by both the narrator and the characters.Key words: Irony, parody, narratology, history of the novel, Carles Soldevila.