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      Loose Connexions: The Poetry of Walter Redfern

      Walter Redfern

      Professor J.M. Parkin, Bristol University writes: …There’s no real point if there’s no levity. Such might be the epigraph not just to this collection, but indeed to the literary and…

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      Michel Tournier: Le Coq de bruy_re

      Walter Redfern

      This book is a study of Michel Tournier’s collection of short stories, Le Coq de bruyre, but it is also much more. Author Walter Redfern sees the stories as a…

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      The Dead and the Quick: Cliches and Neologisms in the Written, Spoken and Visual Cultures of Britain, the United States and France

      Walter Redfern

      A study that focuses on the dynamic potentialities of language, whether via the reanimation of moribund ideas or by coinages from scratch. It analyzes such topics as: imitation, rumor, political…

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      All Puns Intended: The Verbal Creation of Jean-Pierre Brisset

      Walter Redfern

      This is an examination of the writing of Jean-Pierre Brisset, highlighting his manipulation of French language to explore a range of themes including the nature of literary madness, the phenomenon…

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      Puns and Their Kin

      Walter Redfern,W D Redfern

      Stimulating, challenging, engaging, dauntingly well informed and wide-ranging, Professor Redfern’s revised book on puns offers massive returns both to the specialist researcher and the interested general reader. Taking his examples…

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      French Laughter: Literary Humour from Diderot to Tournier

      Walter Redfern (Emeritus Professor of French Studies, University of Reading)

      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…

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      Les Mains Sales

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      First Published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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      Les Mains Sales

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      Includes the full French text, accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.

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      Translation, Humour and Literature: Translation and Humour Volume 1

      Examines the issues of translating humour within a range of different literary traditions and across various languages. This title analyses humour and translation in every day life, including jokes and…

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      Writing on the Move: Albert Londres and Investigative Journalism

      Walter Redfern

      Albert Londres (1884-1932) was a much-translated French investigative journalist whose journalistic coverage and themes were wide-ranging. This study compares and contrasts Londres’ work with that of other globe-trotting reporters from…

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