French Humour

Introduction. Chapter One: Alison WILLIAMS and John PARKIN: Feminine wiles and masculine woes: sexual dynamics in Les Quinze Joies de Mariage. Chapter Two: Michael FREEMAN: Laughter in the Waning of the Middle Ages. Chapter Three: John PARKIN: Bergson and Rabelais: the twain who never met. Chapter Four: John PARKIN: La Bruyère: a study in satire. Chapter Five: Keith CAMERON: Humour and Propaganda under the Second Empire. Chapter Six: William HOWARTH: Bergson Revisited: Le Rire a hundred years on. Chapter Seven: Walter REDFERN: Bad Jokes and Beckett. Chapter Eight: Keith FOLEY: 'Comparaison n'est pas rasion': humour and simile in San-Antonio. Chapter Nine: Caroline COOPER: Gender in French New Wave Cinema. Bibliography. Index.