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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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Main Author: Redfern, W. D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
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)
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Call Number: PQ145.1.L3 R43 2008eb
 
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