Walter Redfern

Biographic Data

ID979123
NAMEWalter Redfern
GIVEN NAMESWalter
FAMILY NAMERedfern
SIGNATUREREDFERN W
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Reading
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX1

  • Joie de vivre’ in French Literature and Culture: Essays in Honour of Michael Freeman

    Walter RedfernARTICLEModern & Contemporary France2012

    ‘Joie de vivre’ in French Literature and Culture: Essays in Honour of Michael Freeman." Modern & Contemporary France, 20(3), pp. 382–383

  • French Laughter

    Walter RedfernBOOKFrench laughter2008

    The culmination of a lifetime's fascination with humour in all its forms, this book embraces an impressive span of authors and a broad range of topics in French literary humour. It 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 Bris…

  • The Laughing Philosopher: Diderot

    Walter RedfernCHAPTERFrench laughter2008

    This chapter presents Diderot's LeNeveu de Rameau and Jacques le fataliste as dependent on cross-talk acts and needle-matches. Jacques le fataliste shows cross-talk multilogues, especially in wayside inns. Never a solipsist, Diderot constructs dialogues with himself, split in two, with warmly imagined readers, and with others in the same limonade or trade as himself, past or present. His Les Bijoux indiscrets is sexist, but gladsomely so, in that…

  • Puntheism: Queneau and Brisset

    Walter RedfernARTICLEFrench Studies2000

    Approche linguistique, cosmologique et religieuse de la folie litteraire chez Queneau et Brisset

  • Puns: Second thoughts

    Walter Redfern, WALTER DAVID REDFERNARTICLEHumor - International Journal of…1996

  • Radio daze and imperishable myth: Tournier's 'Tristan Vox

    Open AccessWalter RedfernARTICLEFrench Cultural Studies1993

  • Apt Exploration of Wordplay

    Mahadev L Apte, Walter RedfernARTICLEAmerican Speech1989

  • Puns

    Matthew Marino, Matthew James Marino et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1986

  • Guano of the mind: Puns in advertising

    Open AccessWalter Redfern, W D RedfernARTICLELanguage & Communication1982Cited by: 2References: 3

  • The media in France

    Walter Redfern, W D RedfernARTICLEWest European Politics1978Cited by: 1

    Histoire générale de la presse française. By Claude Bellanger, Jacques Godechot, Pierre Guiral, Fernand Terrou. Paris : Presses Universitaires de France. 1977. Pp. 550. Frs. 165. La Nouvelle Censure. By Jean‐Francois Revel. Paris: Laffont, 1978. Pp. 347. Frs. 45. La Liberté de la presse n'est pas à vendre. By Denis Périer Daville. Paris: Seuil, 1978. Pp. 254. Frs. 42. Le Dossier Hersant. By Nicolas Brimo and Anne Guérin. Paris: Maspero, 1977. Pp.…