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All Puns Intended - The Verbal Creation of Jean-Pierre Brisset (Paperback)
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All Puns Intended - The Verbal Creation of Jean-Pierre Brisset (Paperback)
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The nineteenth century in France spawned numerous 'fous
litteraires, one of the most fascinating 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 rewritng
of the creation. (Legenda 2001)
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