French laughter
Subtitle: literary humour from Diderot to Tournier
By: Walter Redfern.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780199237579
Subjects: French literature -- History and criticism; Laughter in literature; Humor in literature
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-240) and index.