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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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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