The Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense / / ed. by Anna Barton, James Williams.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• MitwirkendeR: Barton, Anna,; Chiarini, Sara,; Dubois, Martin,; Fall, Rebecca L.,; Giammei, Alessandro,; Haughton, Hugh,; Heyman, Michael,; Johnston, Freya,; Kirk, Jordan,; Lukes, Alexandra,; Masud, Noreen,; Piette, Adam,; Potter, Michael,; Rann, James,; Roberts, Hugh,; Satpathy, Sumanyu,; Swaab, Peter,; Westwood, Cassie,; Williams, James,
• HerausgeberIn: Barton, Anna,; Williams, James,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.) :; 17 B/W illustrations

Provides a wide-ranging account of the different disciplinary, critical and theoretical contexts relevant to the study of nonsenseIncludes new perspectives on canonical nonsense worksOffers a provocative revaluation of theories and definitions of nonsense, urging an understanding of the term as relevant to a broad range of cultural forms and textsIncludes essays by a collection of internationally recognised scholars working on nonsense and related fieldsAims to set the agenda for nonsense scholarship and to open up avenues for future researchThe Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense is the first comprehensive treatment of its subject across historical periods, languages, cultures, and theoretical frameworks. Written by scholars in a range of disciplines from philosophy to music as well as literary critics and linguists, it provides the first overview of nonsense as a vital dimension of human creativity, drawing on insights from theology to queer studies, from India to Russia, and from Ancient Greece to the late modernism of the twentieth century. Responding to a growing interest in nonsense within the academy and reflecting the diversity of understandings that the term inspires, this book aims to advance nonsense as a developing critical field, and to inspire new areas of research.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Companionable Nonsense -- Part I: Notes towards a History of English Nonsense -- 1 Buba, Blictrix, Bufbaf: Medieval Theory and Practice of Nonsense -- 2 ‘The Best Fooling’: Every Man Out of His Humour, Twelfth Night and Early Modern English Nonsense Games -- 3 Nonsense in the Age of Reason -- 4 ‘The Light of Sense / Goes Out’: Romantic Poetry and Victorian Nonsense Poetry -- 5 Victorian Nonsense and Its Kinships -- 6 Shady Pleasures: Modernist Nonsense -- 7 Mid-Century Nonsense and Destructive Mockery -- Part II: Global Nonsenses -- 8 In Search of Ancient Greek Nonsense -- 9 Traditional Moorings, Modern Practices: Indian Literary Nonsense -- 10 Signs and Wonders: Two Approaches to Nonsense in Russia -- 11 ‘What’s the French for fiddle-de-dee?’: Nonsense in French -- 12 Italian Nonsense: Tradition, Translation, Translocation, Transcodification (and a Trinity) -- Part III: Contexts and Connections -- 13 English ‘hibber-gibber’ and the ‘jargon of France’: Rabelaisian Nonsense in Translation -- 14 Musical Foundations of Nonsense -- 15 Doubtful Girls and Silly Women: Nonsense and Gender -- 16 Queer Nonsense: Query? -- 17 Humans, and Other Nonsense Animals -- 18 Nonsense Among the Philosophers -- 19 ‘Word beyond Speech’: Nonsense and the Sacred -- Notes on Contributors -- Index