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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... words in 'Jabberwocky' (this book will be no exception). And philosophers, both AngloSaxon and continental, have always been fond of trying to solve the puzzles in which Carroll ensnares his readers, or of referring to the Alice books ...
... words in 'Jabberwocky' (this book will be no exception). And philosophers, both AngloSaxon and continental, have always been fond of trying to solve the puzzles in which Carroll ensnares his readers, or of referring to the Alice books ...
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... words, I shall seek to account for nonsense in the terms, familiar to contemporary French thought in the fields both of psychoanalysis and philosophy, of the dialectic of excess and lack. I have already formulated the linguistic version ...
... words, I shall seek to account for nonsense in the terms, familiar to contemporary French thought in the fields both of psychoanalysis and philosophy, of the dialectic of excess and lack. I have already formulated the linguistic version ...
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... words in each paragraph, in order to arrive at the hidden meaning, while some words had to be examined through a mirror and read backwards. It will no doubt come as a surprise to the reader to learn that 'Jabberwocky' is the code name ...
... words in each paragraph, in order to arrive at the hidden meaning, while some words had to be examined through a mirror and read backwards. It will no doubt come as a surprise to the reader to learn that 'Jabberwocky' is the code name ...
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... word: it links a word in Through the Looking-Glass to a word in the hypotext, the Talmud, the Jewish ritual or the life of the prophet. Sometimes this copulative relation even dispenses with the material link between signifiers. The ...
... word: it links a word in Through the Looking-Glass to a word in the hypotext, the Talmud, the Jewish ritual or the life of the prophet. Sometimes this copulative relation even dispenses with the material link between signifiers. The ...
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... word, we have called a portmanteau-word; (b) Apart from clear cases of cheating, the analysis yields real results—what Ettelson finds is actually there, in the words where he finds it. We are no longer dealing with the facility of ...
... word, we have called a portmanteau-word; (b) Apart from clear cases of cheating, the analysis yields real results—what Ettelson finds is actually there, in the words where he finds it. We are no longer dealing with the facility of ...
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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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