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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Redfern, W. D.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The laughing philosopher: Diderot ; Riff on laughter
  • The question of humourlessness (Rousseau, Sade, God, and Brisset) ; Riff on dreams
  • Huysmans: back-to-front, and backpacking
  • A little bird tells us: Parrots in Flaubert, Queneau, Beckett (and Tutti Quanti)
  • Blague hard! Valles ; Riff on black humour
  • Upping the anti/e: exaggeration in Celine and Valles ; Riff on politics
  • Drole de philosophie: Sartre
  • Bad Jokes and Beckett ; Riff on taste
  • Approximating Man: Michel Tournier's play with language.

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