French laughter: literary humour from diderot to tournier
Auteur :
Redfern, Walter
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780199237579
Date de publication :
21 févr. 2008
Dimensions :
22,3 x 14,6 x 1,9 cm
Poids :
443 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.