03543nam 2200601 a 450 991078302490332120230607214916.01-138-17563-31-280-33214-X0-203-02572-5(CKB)1000000000006054(EBL)168931(OCoLC)50558561(SSID)ssj0000221062(PQKBManifestationID)11191443(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000221062(PQKBWorkID)10160269(PQKB)11294362ebr10017137(MiAaPQ)EBC168931(Au-PeEL)EBL168931(CaPaEBR)ebr10070600(CaONFJC)MIL33214(EXLCZ)99100000000000605419930611e20021994 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPhilosophy of nonsense[electronic resource] the intuitions of Victorian nonsense literature /Jean-Jacques LecercleLondon ;New York Routledge20021 online resource (256 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-07652-8 0-415-07653-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-242) and index.Cover; PHILOSOPHY OF NONSENSE: The intuitions of Victorian nonsense literature; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION: READING NONSENSE READING; READING NONSENSE; NONSENSE READING: LEWIS CARROLL AND THE TALMUD; REREADING NONSENSE: 'JABBERWOCKY'; CONCLUSION; 1 THE LINGUISTICS OF NONSENSE; INTRODUCTION; PHONETICS; MORPHOLOGY; SYNTAX; SEMANTICS; CONCLUSION; 2 THE PRAGMATICS OF NONSENSE; INTRODUCTION; THE PRAGMATICS OF CONVERSATION; POLITENESS AND IDLE TALK; CONCLUSION; 3 NONSENSE AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE; INTRODUCTION; MEANING AND SAYING; HUMPTY DUMPTY'S THEORIES OF LANGUAGEIS HE AN EGG OR A PERSON?A THEORY OF NAMING; A THEORY OF CONVERSATION; AN AGONISTIC USE OF LITERAL INTERPRETATION; A THEORY OF DEFINITION; INTERPRETATION REVISITED; CONCLUSION; 4 THE POLYPHONY OF NONSENSE; INTRODUCTION; PARODY; THE INTERTEXT OF NONSENSE; THE DISCOURSES OF NONSENSE; PATCHWORK; DISCOURSES; LANGUAGE; FICTION AND LOGIC; NATURAL HISTORY; MADNESS; INSCRIPTION; THE INSTITUTION OF NONSENSE; CONCLUSION; CONCLUSION; READING PHILOSOPHICALLY; THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK REVISITED; NOTES; INDEX'Jean-Jacques Lecercle's remarkable Philosophy of Nonsense offers a sustained and important account of an area that is usually hastily dismissed. Using the resources of contemporary philosophy - notably Deleuze and Lyotard - he manages to bring out the importance of nonsense' - Andrew Benjamin, University of Warwick Why are we, and in particular why are philosophers and linguists, so fascinated with nonsense? Why do Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear appear in so many otherwise dull and dry academic books? This amusing, yet rigorous new Nonsense literature, EnglishHistory and criticismTheory, etcEnglish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismTheory, etcNonsense literature, EnglishHistory and criticismTheory, etc.English literatureHistory and criticismTheory, etc.827.009Lecercle Jean-Jacques318262MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783024903321Philosophy of nonsense182285UNINA