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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Արդյունքներ 44–ի 1-ից 3-ը:
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... understand what not only passes understanding but also forbids understanding by with- drawing sense . The deep - seated need for meaning , which nonsense texts deliberately frustrate in order to whet it , will be accounted for in terms ...
... understand what not only passes understanding but also forbids understanding by with- drawing sense . The deep - seated need for meaning , which nonsense texts deliberately frustrate in order to whet it , will be accounted for in terms ...
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... understand grammatical words like articles , prepositions and auxiliary verbs , but the normally meaningful words , nouns , adjectives and verbs , are meaningless . Nor do Humpty Dumpty's explanations really help . The creature is ...
... understand grammatical words like articles , prepositions and auxiliary verbs , but the normally meaningful words , nouns , adjectives and verbs , are meaningless . Nor do Humpty Dumpty's explanations really help . The creature is ...
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... understands the words , and the sentences , but little else . He or she will have to wait till the very end of the novel in order to understand them completely , by picking out the right referents for those proper names and allusions to ...
... understands the words , and the sentences , but little else . He or she will have to wait till the very end of the novel in order to understand them completely , by picking out the right referents for those proper names and allusions to ...
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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