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French Laughter Literary Humour from Diderot to Tournier

Redfern Walter
Innbundet / 2008 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199237579
Publisert
2008
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
443 gr
Høyde
223 mm
Bredde
146 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
256

Forfatter
Redfern Walter

Om bidragsyterne

Walter Redfern is Emeritus Professor of French Studies at Reading University. His research interests include Giono, Nizan, Queneau, Sartre, Darien, Vallès, Tournier, Guilloux; wordplay; clichés; coinages, as well as 19th-century linguistics (J-P. Brisset). In addition to numerous articles on French nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, humour, and political commitment, his output includes BBC talks and scripts for programmes on language matters, a novel, short stories and poems. He has written several books, including, most recently, Puns, 2nd revised edition (Penguin, 2000).

French Laughter Literary Humour from Diderot to Tournier

Redfern Walter
Innbundet / 2008 / Engelsk
Redfern Walter
Innbundet / 2008 / Engelsk
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French Laughter romps through four centuries of literary humour with much wit and word-play along the way... this [is an] impressive and adventurous book.

Forum for Modern Language Studies

Some excellent insights.

David Coward, TLS

Redfern's book yomps joyously through many kinds of comedy...Un Drole de livre, in all the best senses.

Steven Poole. The Guardian

Se alle

an idiosyncratic but wise excursion into the delightful topic of humour in French writing.

Simon Davies, MLR

this is a splendidly refreshing and iconoclastic book, which deserves to be prescribed as frequently as the famous 'pilules Pink, pour personnes pâles'.

Toby Garfitt, Modern & Contemporary France

[an] insightful analysis of the use of humour by various luminaries of the French literary world, including Diderot, Flaubert and Rousseau, offers a highly thought-provoking study that many will find fascinating.

French Magazine

few academics these days are equipped to embellish their work with the erudition, verve, and irreverence that are his hallmarks

David Platten, French Studies

a welcome companion

An excellent jaunt.

Christie Davis. Times Higher Education

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 Walter Redfern considers diverse writers and topics, including: Diderot, viewed as a laughing philosopher, mainly through his fiction (Les Bijoux indiscrets, Le Neeu de Rameau, and Jacques le fataliste); humourlessness, corraling Rousseau, Sade, the Christian God, and Jean-Pierre Brisset; the aesthete Huysmans, in both his avatars, Symbolist and Naturalist (A Rebours, Sac au dos, and other texts); the dramatic use of parrots by Flaubert, Queneau, and Beckett; Vallès and la blague; exaggeration in Vallès and Céline (Mort à credit and L'Enfant); the fiction, plays, and autobiography of Sartre; bad jokes in Beckett; wordplay in Tournier's fiction (especially Roi des aulnes and Les Météores). Five interleaved 'riffs' on laughter, dreams, black humour, politics, and taste, carry the enquiry into questions of humour outside of the purely French context, enhancing a book that impresses as much with its vivacity of style as with the breadth and depth of its scholarship.
Les mer
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.
Les mer
Promises, promises ; 1. The Laughing Philosopher: Diderot ; Riff on Laughter ; 2. The Question of Humourlessness (Rousseau, Sade, God, and Brisset) ; Riff on Dreams ; 3. Huysmans: Back-to-front, and Back-packing ; 4. A Little Bird Tells Us: Parrots in Flaubert, Queneau, Beckett (and Tutti Quanti) ; 5. Blague hard! Valles ; Riff on Black Humour ; 6. Upping the Anti/e: Exaggeration in Valles and Celine ; Riff on Politics ; 7. Drole de philosophie: Sartre ; 8. Bad Jokes and Beckett ; Riff on Taste ; 9. Approximating Man: Michel Tournier's Play with Words ; Inconclusion ; Bibliography
Les mer
French Laughter romps through four centuries of literary humour with much wit and word-play along the way... this [is an] impressive and adventurous book.
The humour of these writers has been seriously neglected until now Includes interleaved 'riffs' that extend the discussion beyond the French literary context Lively style and interesting variation between 'low' and 'high' culture
Les mer
Walter Redfern is Emeritus Professor of French Studies at Reading University. His research interests include Giono, Nizan, Queneau, Sartre, Darien, Vallès, Tournier, Guilloux; wordplay; clichés; coinages, as well as 19th-century linguistics (J-P. Brisset). In addition to numerous articles on French nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, humour, and political commitment, his output includes BBC talks and scripts for programmes on language matters, a novel, short stories and poems. He has written several books, including, most recently, Puns, 2nd revised edition (Penguin, 2000).
Les mer
The humour of these writers has been seriously neglected until now Includes interleaved 'riffs' that extend the discussion beyond the French literary context Lively style and interesting variation between 'low' and 'high' culture
Les mer

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French Laughter romps through four centuries of literary humour with much wit and word-play along the way... this [is an] impressive and adventurous book.

Forum for Modern Language Studies

Some excellent insights.

David Coward, TLS

Redfern's book yomps joyously through many kinds of comedy...Un Drole de livre, in all the best senses.

Steven Poole. The Guardian

Se alle

an idiosyncratic but wise excursion into the delightful topic of humour in French writing.

Simon Davies, MLR

this is a splendidly refreshing and iconoclastic book, which deserves to be prescribed as frequently as the famous 'pilules Pink, pour personnes pâles'.

Toby Garfitt, Modern & Contemporary France

[an] insightful analysis of the use of humour by various luminaries of the French literary world, including Diderot, Flaubert and Rousseau, offers a highly thought-provoking study that many will find fascinating.

French Magazine

few academics these days are equipped to embellish their work with the erudition, verve, and irreverence that are his hallmarks

David Platten, French Studies

a welcome companion

An excellent jaunt.

Christie Davis. Times Higher Education

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 Walter Redfern considers diverse writers and topics, including: Diderot, viewed as a laughing philosopher, mainly through his fiction (Les Bijoux indiscrets, Le Neeu de Rameau, and Jacques le fataliste); humourlessness, corraling Rousseau, Sade, the Christian God, and Jean-Pierre Brisset; the aesthete Huysmans, in both his avatars, Symbolist and Naturalist (A Rebours, Sac au dos, and other texts); the dramatic use of parrots by Flaubert, Queneau, and Beckett; Vallès and la blague; exaggeration in Vallès and Céline (Mort à credit and L'Enfant); the fiction, plays, and autobiography of Sartre; bad jokes in Beckett; wordplay in Tournier's fiction (especially Roi des aulnes and Les Météores). Five interleaved 'riffs' on laughter, dreams, black humour, politics, and taste, carry the enquiry into questions of humour outside of the purely French context, enhancing a book that impresses as much with its vivacity of style as with the breadth and depth of its scholarship.
Les mer
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.
Les mer
Promises, promises ; 1. The Laughing Philosopher: Diderot ; Riff on Laughter ; 2. The Question of Humourlessness (Rousseau, Sade, God, and Brisset) ; Riff on Dreams ; 3. Huysmans: Back-to-front, and Back-packing ; 4. A Little Bird Tells Us: Parrots in Flaubert, Queneau, Beckett (and Tutti Quanti) ; 5. Blague hard! Valles ; Riff on Black Humour ; 6. Upping the Anti/e: Exaggeration in Valles and Celine ; Riff on Politics ; 7. Drole de philosophie: Sartre ; 8. Bad Jokes and Beckett ; Riff on Taste ; 9. Approximating Man: Michel Tournier's Play with Words ; Inconclusion ; Bibliography
Les mer
French Laughter romps through four centuries of literary humour with much wit and word-play along the way... this [is an] impressive and adventurous book.
The humour of these writers has been seriously neglected until now Includes interleaved 'riffs' that extend the discussion beyond the French literary context Lively style and interesting variation between 'low' and 'high' culture
Les mer
Walter Redfern is Emeritus Professor of French Studies at Reading University. His research interests include Giono, Nizan, Queneau, Sartre, Darien, Vallès, Tournier, Guilloux; wordplay; clichés; coinages, as well as 19th-century linguistics (J-P. Brisset). In addition to numerous articles on French nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, humour, and political commitment, his output includes BBC talks and scripts for programmes on language matters, a novel, short stories and poems. He has written several books, including, most recently, Puns, 2nd revised edition (Penguin, 2000).
Les mer
The humour of these writers has been seriously neglected until now Includes interleaved 'riffs' that extend the discussion beyond the French literary context Lively style and interesting variation between 'low' and 'high' culture
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199237579
Publisert
2008
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
443 gr
Høyde
223 mm
Bredde
146 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
256

Forfatter
Redfern Walter

Om bidragsyterne

Walter Redfern is Emeritus Professor of French Studies at Reading University. His research interests include Giono, Nizan, Queneau, Sartre, Darien, Vallès, Tournier, Guilloux; wordplay; clichés; coinages, as well as 19th-century linguistics (J-P. Brisset). In addition to numerous articles on French nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, humour, and political commitment, his output includes BBC talks and scripts for programmes on language matters, a novel, short stories and poems. He has written several books, including, most recently, Puns, 2nd revised edition (Penguin, 2000).

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