The Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense /

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

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 rele...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.) :; 17 B/W illustrations
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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

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