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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... analysis, even if it is coherent, is closer to simile than to 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 ...
... analysis, even if it is coherent, is closer to simile than to 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 ...
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... 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 arbitrary pronouncements, as was the case with the symbolic device—the 'Satan' anagram is ...
... 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 arbitrary pronouncements, as was the case with the symbolic device—the 'Satan' anagram is ...
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... analysis, where Ettelson is this author's judge Schreber (the judge is, as we know, the author of Memories of my Mental Illness, and the object of one of Freud's 'five case studies'). The text is a classic instance of interpretative ...
... analysis, where Ettelson is this author's judge Schreber (the judge is, as we know, the author of Memories of my Mental Illness, and the object of one of Freud's 'five case studies'). The text is a classic instance of interpretative ...
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... analyses of the same phrase according to Brisset's device. Ettelson's interpretation of Carroll claims to be the only true one, since Ettelson is the only one to have discovered that Through the Looking-Glass is a cryptogram of the ...
... analyses of the same phrase according to Brisset's device. Ettelson's interpretation of Carroll claims to be the only true one, since Ettelson is the only one to have discovered that Through the Looking-Glass is a cryptogram of the ...
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... analysis. And this does not mean that, because too few constraints are imposed upon it, in the way of interpretation anything goes. This does not apply, even to Ettelson. His reduction, his forcing meaning out of the text, is linked to ...
... analysis. And this does not mean that, because too few constraints are imposed upon it, in the way of interpretation anything goes. This does not apply, even to Ettelson. His reduction, his forcing meaning out of the text, is linked to ...
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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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