03239nam 2200661Ia 450 991079222680332120200520144314.00-19-152870-697866113416571-281-34165-7(CKB)2560000000296002(EBL)415319(OCoLC)243580462(SSID)ssj0000158319(PQKBManifestationID)11182098(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000158319(PQKBWorkID)10145373(PQKB)10899726(StDuBDS)EDZ0000034439(MiAaPQ)EBC415319(Au-PeEL)EBL415319(CaPaEBR)ebr10215762(CaONFJC)MIL134165(MiAaPQ)EBC7034063(Au-PeEL)EBL7034063(PPN)183106083(EXLCZ)99256000000029600220080523d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFrench laughter[electronic resource] literary humour from Diderot to Tournier /Walter RedfernOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20081 online resource (256 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-923757-3 0-19-169674-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-240) and index.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; NotesBibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; ZThe 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 WFrench literatureHistory and criticismHumor in literatureLaughter in literatureFrench literatureHistory and criticism.Humor in literature.Laughter in literature.840.917Redfern W. D1584886MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792226803321French laughter3868979UNINA