Philosophy of Nonsense: The Intuitions of Victorian Nonsense LiteratureRoutledge, 12 նոյ, 2012 թ. - 256 էջ '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 book by Jean-Jacques Lecercle shows how the genre of nonsense was constructed and why it has proved so enduring and enlightening for linguistics and philosophy. |
From inside the book
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... coherence. I have adopted the practice of anthologies of nonsense, i.e. I have chosen a variable corpus, with a centre and a periphery, as practised in what is known as prototype semantics. Anthologies of nonsense are all built around a ...
... coherence. I have adopted the practice of anthologies of nonsense, i.e. I have chosen a variable corpus, with a centre and a periphery, as practised in what is known as prototype semantics. Anthologies of nonsense are all built around a ...
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... coherent interpretation of the text being read: excess always compensates for lack. The lack of results, of seriousness, can be seen as the necessary loss in order to gain new intuitions. In their nonsensicality or 'madness', nonsense ...
... coherent interpretation of the text being read: excess always compensates for lack. The lack of results, of seriousness, can be seen as the necessary loss in order to gain new intuitions. In their nonsensicality or 'madness', nonsense ...
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... coherent, is closer to simile than to metaphor, at least if we follow Davidson's theory of metaphor.15 According to him, simile is trivial, because too easy, because always possible (everything is 'like' everything else in at least one ...
... coherent, is closer to simile than to metaphor, at least if we follow Davidson's theory of metaphor.15 According to him, simile is trivial, because too easy, because always possible (everything is 'like' everything else in at least one ...
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... !' To speak like Lyotard, in Le Différend,16 we have to acknowledge that there is such a thing as an 'Ettelson-phrase', a mode of expression, a style of interpretation, which are both entirely coherent 11 INTRODUCTION.
... !' To speak like Lyotard, in Le Différend,16 we have to acknowledge that there is such a thing as an 'Ettelson-phrase', a mode of expression, a style of interpretation, which are both entirely coherent 11 INTRODUCTION.
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... coherent and in a specific relationship with their model, the 'Carroll-phrase'. The Ettelson phrase has two variants, one symbolic, the other rhetorical, but its 'regimen' is not in doubt: it is a descriptive phrase, which phrases ...
... coherent and in a specific relationship with their model, the 'Carroll-phrase'. The Ettelson phrase has two variants, one symbolic, the other rhetorical, but its 'regimen' is not in doubt: it is a descriptive phrase, which phrases ...
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1 THE LINGUISTICS OF NONSENSE | 27 |
2 THE PRAGMATICS OF NONSENSE | 69 |
3 NONSENSE AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE | 115 |
4 THE POLYPHONY OF NONSENSE | 165 |
CONCLUSION | 223 |
NOTES | 233 |
INDEX | 243 |
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