Philosophy of Nonsense: The Intuitions of Victorian Nonsense LiteratureRoutledge, 1994 - 245 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. |
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... at the poem as a whole , we shall notice two things . The first stanza , which everyone knows by heart , is so memorable because of the sheer abundance of coined words in it ; the other stanzas , although they contain a number of ...
... at the poem as a whole , we shall notice two things . The first stanza , which everyone knows by heart , is so memorable because of the sheer abundance of coined words in it ; the other stanzas , although they contain a number of ...
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... at the very end of the chapter , when Humpty Dumpty criticises Alice's lack of distinctiveness : ' I shouldn't know you again if we did meet , ' Humpty Dumpty replied in a discontented tone , giving her one of his fingers to shake ...
... at the very end of the chapter , when Humpty Dumpty criticises Alice's lack of distinctiveness : ' I shouldn't know you again if we did meet , ' Humpty Dumpty replied in a discontented tone , giving her one of his fingers to shake ...
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... at the time could not claim to be at the forefront of educational progress . As a member of an over - reformed academia , I have always relished the answer given in 1850 by the university to some government reform committee : the ...
... at the time could not claim to be at the forefront of educational progress . As a member of an over - reformed academia , I have always relished the answer given in 1850 by the university to some government reform committee : the ...
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Lewis Carroll and the Talmud | 5 |
Jabberwocky | 20 |
THE LINGUISTICS OF NONSENSE | 27 |
Հեղինակային իրավունք | |
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Philosophy of Nonsense: The Intuitions of Victorian Nonsense Literature Jean-Jacques Lecercle Դիտել հնարավոր չէ - 1994 |
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Adventures in Wonderland agon agonistic Alice books Alice's Adventures analysis Annotated Alice appears Bakhtin Carroll's chain chapter characteristic characters coherent coinages comic concept constraints context contradiction conversation cooperative course dialectics of subversion dialogue discourse Dumpty's Edward Lear English Ettelson exploitation expression fact fiction genre grammar historical Humpty Dumpty ibid implicatures implicit incoherence instance intention interpretation intertext intuitions inversion Jabberwocky King language Lear Lear's Lecercle 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 phrase 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 words