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All Puns Intended: The Verbal Creation of Jean-Pierre Brisset (Research Monographs in French Studies) - Softcover

Redfern, Walter

 
9781900755528: All Puns Intended: The Verbal Creation of Jean-Pierre Brisset (Research Monographs in French Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1900755521 ISBN 13: 9781900755528
Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

The 19th century in France spawned numerous 'fous litteraires, one of them being Jean-Pierre Brisset (1837-1919). An individualist among individualists, he dismantled the existing French tongue, reshaping it to suit his own grandiose purposes, which were to explain afresh the development of human beings (from frogs) and of their language (from croaks). Continuous and ubiquitous punning was a unique feature of his writing. In this study, Redfern examines such themes as the nature of literary madness, the phenomenon of deadpan humour, the role of analogy, and the place of institutional religion in Brisset's creative rewriting of the creation.

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Walter Redfern

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1900755521
ISBN 13 
9781900755528
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
198