French Laughter Literary Humour from Diderot to Tournier |
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| Author:
| Redfern, Walter |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-923757-9 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2008 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $86.00 |
Book Description:
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The culmination of a lifetime's fascination with humor, 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, humor as philosophical speculation, and plagiarism.
The culmination of a lifetime's fascination with humor, 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, humor as philosophical speculation, and plagiarism.