Nonsense: Aspects of Intertextuality in Folklore and Literature

ISBN-13: 9780801839818 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 240 str.

Susan Stewart

Opis

From a -comic strip- papyrus dating from Egypt's New Kingdom to the works of Stein, Joyce, and Barth, -nonsense- texts reveal a set of possibilities as rich and complex as the more conventional system of -making sense- from which they are derived. Examining palindromes, children's rhymes, puns, anagrams, code languages, and other texts, Susan Stewart explores the labyrinthine relationships between common sense and nonsense-- and presents an original contribution to the fields of folklore, literary theory, anthropology, and sociology by analyzing nonsense within an expansive context of the social manufacture of order and disorder.