Theology and geometry : essays on John Kennedy Toole's A confederacy of dunces /: essays on John Kennedy Toole's A confederacy of dunces. ([2020])
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- Book
- Title:
- Theology and geometry : essays on John Kennedy Toole's A confederacy of dunces /: essays on John Kennedy Toole's A confederacy of dunces. ([2020])
- Main Title:
- Theology and geometry : essays on John Kennedy Toole's A confederacy of dunces
- 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 asCover -- 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 … (more)
- 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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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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