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200 10$aFrench laughter$b[electronic resource] $eliterary humour from Diderot to Tournier /$fWalter Redfern
210   $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2008
215   $a1 online resource (256 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [233]-240) and index.
327   $aContents; 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! Valle?s; Riff on Black Humour; 6. Upping the Anti/e: Exaggeration in Ce?line and Valle?s; Riff on Politics; 7. Dro?le de philosophie: Sartre; 8. Bad Jokes and Beckett; Riff on Taste; 9. Approximating Man: Michel Tournier's Play with Language; Inconclusion; Notes
327   $aBibliographyIndex; 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
330   $aThe 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
606   $aFrench literature$xHistory and criticism
606   $aHumor in literature
606   $aLaughter in literature
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615  0$aHumor in literature.
615  0$aLaughter in literature.
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