French laughter : literary humour from Diderot to Tournier /

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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Redfern, W. D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Temas:
French literature > History and criticism.
Humor in literature.
Laughter in literature.
Littérature française > Histoire et critique.
Rire dans la littérature.
Humour dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
Laughter in literature
French literature
Humor in literature
Bellettrie.
Frans.
Humor (grappigheden)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 245 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-240) and index.
ISBN:9780191528705
0191528706
9780199237579
0199237573
9786611341657
661134165X
9780191696749
0191696749
1281341657
9781281341655

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