French laughter [[electronic resource] ] : literary humour from Diderot to Tournier / / Walter Redfern

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465630903321
• Autore: Redfern W. D
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008
• ISBN: 0-19-152870-6; 9786611341657; 1-281-34165-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 840.917
• Soggetti: French literature - History and criticism; Humor in literature; Laughter in literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-240) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Abbreviations; Promises, Promises; 1. The Laughing Philosopher: Diderot; Riff on Laughter; 2. The Question of Humourlessness (Rousseau, Sade, God, and Brisset); Riff on Dreams; 3. Huysmans: Back-to-Front, and Backpacking; 4. A Little Bird Tells Us: Parrots in Flaubert, Queneau, Beckett (and Tutti Quanti); 5. Blague Hard! Vallès; Riff on Black Humour; 6. Upping the Anti/e: Exaggeration in Céline and Vallès; Riff on Politics; 7. Drôle de philosophie: Sartre; 8. Bad Jokes and Beckett; Riff on Taste; 9. Approximating Man: Michel Tournier's Play with Language; Inconclusion; Notes; BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: The culmination of a lifetime's fascination with humour, Walter Redfern's book treats major French writers from the 18th to the 20th centuries as humorists, including Diderot, Rousseau, Sade, Huysmans, Flaubert, Beckett, and Tournier. He considers irony, hyperbole, wordplay, jokes, dialogue, humour as philosophical speculation, and plagiarism. - ;The culmination of a lifetime's fascination with humour in all its forms, this book is the first in any language to embrace such an ; impressive span of authors and such a broad range of topics in French literary humour. In nine wide-ranging chapters W