LEADER 05187nam 2200877 450 001 9910780531503321 005 20231206233109.0 010 $a1-4426-8270-1 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442682702 035 $a(CKB)2430000000000944 035 $a(EBL)4672192 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000378461 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11258874 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000378461 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10351466 035 $a(PQKB)10546547 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001420439 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12611302 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001420439 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11403757 035 $a(PQKB)11038366 035 $a(CaPaEBR)417548 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600237 035 $a(DE-B1597)465059 035 $a(OCoLC)944177303 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442682702 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672192 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257870 035 $a(OCoLC)958579795 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/5bmqtr 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672192 035 $a(OCoLC)320049680 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_105468 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3250415 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000000944 100 $a20160923h19941994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTouch monkeys $enonsense strategies for reading twentieth-century poetry /$fMarnie Parsons 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1994. 210 4$dİ1994 215 $a1 online resource (283 p.) 225 1 $aTheory / Culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8020-3624-4 311 $a0-8020-2983-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""PART ONE""; ""'Loppleton Leery'""; ""ONE: Runcible Relations: A Taxonomy of Nonsense Criticism and Theory""; ""'Nobody'""; ""PART TWO""; ""TWO: 'Touch Monkeys': A Semanalytic Approach to Nonsense""; ""'Hunting Song of the Bandar-Logician'""; ""THREE: 'There was an Old Man with a nose': Nonsense and the Body""; ""'Becoming Visceral'""; ""FOUR: 'as birds as well as words': Nonsense and Sound""; ""'O jongleurs, O belly laughs'""; ""FIVE: 'A Silly Corpse?': The 'L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E' Poets and the Nonsense of Reference""; ""'What then is a window'"" 327 $a""Notes""""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z"" 330 $aAll too often Nonsense is relegated to the nursery. Marnie Parsons argues that, rather than being mere child's play, nonsense is a major force in poetic language. In Touch Monkeys she presents us with an original reading of a much-maligned linguistic pursuit. Parsons distinguishes between nonsense language and Nonsense, the genre. Her major chapters work towards a vision of nonsense language as palimpsestic - the overlaying of several ways of making meaning onto a verbal sense system, and the consequent disruption of that system. This reading of nonsense is itself an intersection, bringing together historical and contemporary criticism of literary Nonsense and a wide range of poetic and literary theories. Using Carroll and Lear as examples of Nonsense, Parsons provides a survey of existing Nonsense criticism in English, and then extends and elaborates nonsense in theoretical directions set by Gilles Deleuze and Julia Kristeva among others, and by the poetics of such writers as Charles Olson, Charles Bernstein, Ron Silliman, Steve McCaffery, Louis Zukofsky and Daphne Marlatt.Following each chapter is a close reading of work by writers as varied as Rudyard Kipling, Colleen Thibaudeau, Adrienne Rich, and Lyn Hejinian. These readings provide practical applications of nonsense theory and establish the interdependence between theory and practice. Nonsense both inhabits and challenges traditional forms simultaneously; in Touch Monkeys Parsons enters into the spirit of the genre. 410 0$aTheory/culture series. 606 $aAmerican poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aCanadian poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aNonsense verses, English$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aLogic in literature 606 $aPoetics$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aNorth America$xIntellectual life$y20th century 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aCanadian poetry$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aNonsense verses, English$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aLogic in literature. 615 0$aPoetics$xHistory 676 $a821.07 700 $aParsons$b Marnie$01463752 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780531503321 996 $aTouch monkeys$93673149 997 $aUNINA