Böcker av 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 of deadpan humour, and the place of institutional religion in Brisset's rewriting of the creation.

Stimulating, challenging, engaging, 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 back to ancient literatures, but drawing especially on English, American and French cultures, he defines the way in which the pun has so often been denigrated as a poor relation within the family of humorous modes.