Theology and geometry : essays on John Kennedy Toole's A confederacy of dunces /: essays on John Kennedy Toole's A confederacy of dunces. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Leslie Marsh.
• Editors: Marsh, Leslie
• Other Names: Cirilla, Anthony G; Colbert, Olga; Dawson, Matt; Eble, Connie; Harris, Christopher R; Wilson, Jessica Hooten; Leighton, H. Vernon; Marsh, Leslie; McIntyre, Kenneth B
• Contents: Cover -- Theology and Geometry -- Series page -- Theology and Geometry: Essays on John Kennedy Toole'sA Confederacy of Dunces -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 -- A Theory of Humor (Abridged) and the Comic Mechanisms of John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces -- A Theory of Humor (Abridged) -- Genre and Plot -- Character and Structural Incongruities -- Comic Devices -- Physical Comedy and Carnival -- The Fool -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 -- The Literary Foolishness of Ignatius Reilly -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 "Amusingness Forced to Figure Itself Out" -- Ignatius as an Aesthetic Creation -- Ignatius as an Aesthete and Individualist -- Conclusion on Despair -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 -- Theology and Geometry and Taste and Decency -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 -- The Consolation of Dunces -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 -- Ignatius Reilly as the Knight of Faith -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7 -- John Kennedy Toole's Queer Carnivalesque in A Confederacy of Dunces -- Toole and the Literary Carnivalesque -- Toole's Queer Carnivalesque -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 Ignatius's Brain -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9 -- Dunces and Dialogue -- Menippean Masturbation and Ignatius Reilly's Big Chief Tablets -- The Onanistic Rape of Philosophy -- Ignatius's Dialogic Dysfunction and the Copulative Nature of Boethian Communication -- Audience Awareness and Ignatius as Toole's Negative, yet Sympathetic, Exemplum -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10 -- The Representation of Speech in A Confederacy of Dunces -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11 -- Thelma Toole -- Note -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 813.54; Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature; Mothers and sons; Louisiana -- New Orleans; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Fiction; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498585484; 1498585485
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 13, 2020).
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