Philosophy of Nonsense : The Intuitions of Victorian Nonsense Literature

ISBN-13: 9780415076531 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 256 str.

Jean-Jacques Lecercle

Opis

This text offers a sustained account of an area that is usually hastily dismissed. Using the resources of contemporary philosophy - notably Deleuze and Lyotard - Lecercle manages to bring out the importance of nonsense. Why are we - and in particular, philosophers and linguists - so fascinated with nonsense? Why do Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear appear in so many otherwise dull and dry academic books? Lecercle attempts to show how the genre of nonsense was constructed and why it has proved so enduring and enlightening for linguistics and philosophy.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION: READING NONSENSE READING Reading nonsense; Nonsense reading: Lewis Carroll and the Talmud; Rereading nonsense: ‘Jabberwocky’ 1 THE LINGUISTICS OF NONSENSE 2 THE PRAGMATICS OF NONSENSE 3 NONSENSE AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE 4 THE POLYPHONY OF NONSENSE CONCLUSION

O autorze

Jean-Jacques Lecercle is Professor of English at the University of Paris. He is the author of Philosophy Through the Looking Glass, Frankenstein: Mythe et Philosophie and The Violence of Language.