The Edinburgh companion to nonsense /
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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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
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| মালা: | Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities.
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| অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv27zdj9x |
সূচিপত্রের সারণি:
- 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