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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... metaphor— of its centrality or marginality in language, and why nonsense texts carefully avoid it. We understand why nonsense is a reflexive genre better: if the thesis is correct, there is a close link between the practice of literary ...
... metaphor— of its centrality or marginality in language, and why nonsense texts carefully avoid it. We understand why nonsense is a reflexive genre better: if the thesis is correct, there is a close link between the practice of literary ...
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... 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 respect), whereas metaphors, being ...
... 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 respect), whereas metaphors, being ...
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... metaphorical, in that it reflects and displaces the interpretative techniques of literary criticism, which we practise daily. The result of this interpretative arrangement is not, of course, a hierarchic tree of knowledge,buta rhizome ...
... metaphorical, in that it reflects and displaces the interpretative techniques of literary criticism, which we practise daily. The result of this interpretative arrangement is not, of course, a hierarchic tree of knowledge,buta rhizome ...
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... metaphor: and (c) easily inserted in a philosophical tradition, which I will mention briefly under the name of Walter Benjamin.29 Like all logophilists, Ettelson is essentially a translator—his device is a translation device. But in his ...
... metaphor: and (c) easily inserted in a philosophical tradition, which I will mention briefly under the name of Walter Benjamin.29 Like all logophilists, Ettelson is essentially a translator—his device is a translation device. But in his ...
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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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Adventures in Wonderland agon agonistic Alice books Alice’s Adventures ambiguity analysis Annotated Alice appears Bakhtin Carroll’s chain chapter characteristic characters coherent coinages comic concept conjuncture constraints context contradiction conversation cooperative course dialogue discourse Duchess’s Dumpty’s English Ettelson exploitation expression fact fiction genre grammar Grice historical Humpty Dumpty ibid implicatures incoherence instance intention interpretation intertextual intuitions inversion Jabberwocky King language Lear Lewis Carroll limericks linguistic literary literary nonsense logical London Looking-Glass madness maxims meaning metaphor natural nonsense texts nursery rhymes object origin Oxford paradox Paris parody pastiche philosophical philosophy of language phonemes phrase play poem politeness polyphony portmanteau-words possible pragmatic principle puns question reader reading recognise rules semantic sense sentence Snark speaker speech acts stanza subversion and support syntactic syntax Talmud textual theory tradition truth turn Tweedledee Tweedledum Tweedledum and Tweedledee understand utterance verb verbal Victorian nonsense White Rabbit words