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  1. French laughter
    literary humour from Diderot to Tournier
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0199237573; 9780191528705; 9780199237579
    Subjects: French literature; Humor in literature; Laughter in literature; Humor; Französisch; Literatur
    Scope: ix, 245 p
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-240) and index

  2. French laughter
    literary humour from Diderot to Tournier
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    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... more

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    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. - ;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 Wa

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0199237573; 9780191528705; 9780199237579
    RVK Categories: IE 2278 ; IE 2818 ; IE 3450
    Subjects: Laughter in literature; Humor in literature; French literature; French literature ; History and criticism; Humor in literature; Laughter in literature; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource (ix, 245 p)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-240) and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    Contents; Abbreviations; Promises, Promises; 1. The Laughing Philosopher: Diderot; 2. The Question of Humourlessness (Rousseau, Sade, God, and Brisset); 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; 6. Upping the Anti/e: Exaggeration in Céline and Vallès; 7. Drôle de philosophie: Sartre; 8. Bad Jokes and Beckett; 9. Approximating Man: Michel Tournier's Play with Language; Notes; Bibliography; Index