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Article: L'Esthetique de la derision dans les romans de la periode realiste en France (1850-1870): genese, epanouissement et sens du grotesque.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2005
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L'Esthetique de la derision dans les romans de la periode realiste en France (1850-1870): genese, epanouissement et sens du grotesque. By SANDRINE BERTHELOT. (Romantisme et Modernites, 83) Paris: Champion. 2004. 731 pp. 115 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-1062-3.
More so than its English counterpart, derision plays it both ways: the provocation and the retaliation. The defence of derisive writers is that they merely match the absurdity out there. We can deride anything and everyone: death, the late God; we can even deride the regretted Derrida. Derision can take the form of inflating, distorting, or belittling. It leads, under Sandrine Berthelot's hefty shove, into the ...