Touch Monkeys : : Nonsense Strategies for Reading Twentieth-Century Poetry / / Marnie Parsons.
All too often Nonsense is relegated to the nursery. Marnie Parsons argues that, rather than being mere child's play, nonsense is a major force in poetic language. In Touch Monkeys she presents us with an original reading of a much-maligned linguistic pursuit. Parsons distinguishes between nonse...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Theory / Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Part One
- 'Loppleton Leery'
- 1. Runcible Relations: A Taxonomy of Nonsense Criticism and Theory
- 'Nobody'
- Part Two
- 2. Touch Monkeys': A Semanalytic Approach to Nonsense
- 'Hunting Song of the 'Bandar-Logician'
- 3. There was an Old Man with a nose': Nonsense and the Body
- 'Becoming Visceral'
- 4. "as birds as well as words': Nonsense and Sound
- 'O jongleurs, O belly laughs'
- 5. 'A Silly Corpse?': The 'L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E' Poets and the Nonsense of Reference
- 'What then is a window'
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index