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. |
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... poems which might, four centuries in advance, have been written by Edward Lear. The solution to this paradox is not hard to find. We shall duly denounce the retrospective, après coup, nature of the invention of such a tradition ...
... poems which might, four centuries in advance, have been written by Edward Lear. The solution to this paradox is not hard to find. We shall duly denounce the retrospective, après coup, nature of the invention of such a tradition ...
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... poem 'Jabberwocky', where the commentary, which is longer and more detailed than usual, almost takes the form of a short critical essay. There is nothing unusual in this, since the same situation obtains in Martin Gardner's Annotated ...
... poem 'Jabberwocky', where the commentary, which is longer and more detailed than usual, almost takes the form of a short critical essay. There is nothing unusual in this, since the same situation obtains in Martin Gardner's Annotated ...
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... poem beginning with 'Twas brillig, etc., etc.,' is not 'nonsense writing' at all, but contains within it one-half of the Hebrew script alphabet.12 This text has a familiar Carrollian ring. It reminds us of the principle of inversion ...
... poem beginning with 'Twas brillig, etc., etc.,' is not 'nonsense writing' at all, but contains within it one-half of the Hebrew script alphabet.12 This text has a familiar Carrollian ring. It reminds us of the principle of inversion ...
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... poem by dividing the word into equal parts, 'Jabber' and 'wocky' and reading each in the mirror, which gives 'RebbajYkcow', Rabbi Jacob, who, of course, is the Baal Shem Tov (we are on dangerous ground here, as the analysis seems to ...
... poem by dividing the word into equal parts, 'Jabber' and 'wocky' and reading each in the mirror, which gives 'RebbajYkcow', Rabbi Jacob, who, of course, is the Baal Shem Tov (we are on dangerous ground here, as the analysis seems to ...
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... poem 'Jabberwocky' for Alice's benefit. He uses the same symbolic and rhetorical devices as Ettelson. Thus, a 'borogove' is 'a thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round—something like a live mop'; whereas 'toves ...
... poem 'Jabberwocky' for Alice's benefit. He uses the same symbolic and rhetorical devices as Ettelson. Thus, a 'borogove' is 'a thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round—something like a live mop'; whereas 'toves ...
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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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