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academic study of nonsense literature
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Alice's Adventures
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Alice’s Adventures
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Boris Karloff
Carroll's Tale
Carroll's Text
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Carroll’s Tale
Carroll’s Text
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Deleuze Lyotard analysis
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Humpty Dumpty
Intertextual Chain
John III
language and meaning
Lear's Limericks
Lear’s Limericks
LEWIS CARROLL
linguistic pragmatics
literary theory
March Hare
Negative Prefix
Nonsense Texts
Nursery Rhymes
philosophy of language
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Rosh Hashonah
Semantic Incoherence
Semantic Void
Slithy Toves
Subsidiary Thesis
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Twas Brillig
victorian
Victorian literature studies
Victorian Nonsense
White Rabbit
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138175631
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 19 Aug 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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'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.
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.
