The Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense

ISBN-13: 9781474423847 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 408 str.

Anna Barton;James Williams

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Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Companionable Nonsense, Anna Barton and James Williams; Part I: Notes towards a History of English Nonsense;1. Buba, Blictrix, Bufbaf: Medieval Theory and Practice of Nonsense, Jordan Kirk; 2. ‘The Best Fooling’: Every Man Out of His Humour, Twelfth Night, and Early Modern English Nonsense Games, Rebecca Fall; 3. Nonsense in the Age of Reason, Freya Johnston; 4.'The Light of Sense | Goes Out’: Romantic Poetry and Victorian Nonsense Poetry, Peter Swaab; 5. Victorian Nonsense and Its Kinships, Martin Dubois; 6. Shady Pleasures: Modernist Nonsense, Noreen Masud; 7. Mid-Century Nonsense and Destructive Mockery, Adam Piette; Part II: Global Nonsenses; 8. In Search of Ancient Greek Nonsense, Sara Chiarini; 9. Traditional Moorings, Modern Practices: Indian Literary Nonsense, Sumanyu Satpathy; 10. Signs and Wonders: Two Approaches to Nonsense in Russia, Jamie Rann; 11. ‘What’s the French for fiddle-de-dee?’: Nonsense in French, Alexandra Lukes; 12. Italian Nonsense: Tradition, Translation, Translocation, Transcodification (and a Trinity), Alessandro Giammei; Part III: Contexts and Connections; 13. English ‘hibber-gibber’ and the ‘jargon of France’: Rabelaisian Nonsense in Translation, Hugh Roberts; 14. Musical Foundations of Nonsense, Michael Heyman; 15. Doubtful Girls and Silly Women: Nonsense and Gender, Anna Barton; 16. Queer Nonsense: Query?, Hugh Haughton; 17. Humans, and Other Nonsense Animals, Cassie Westwood, 18. Nonsense Among the Philosophers, Michael Potter; 19. ‘Word beyond Speech’: Nonsense and the Sacred, James Williams; Notes on Contributors.