Philosophy of Nonsense: Intuitions of Victorian Nonsense Literature

Philosophy of Nonsense: Intuitions of Victorian Nonsense Literature

by Jean-JacquesLecercle (Author)

Synopsis

'Jean-Jacques Lecercle's remarkable Philosophy of Nonsense offers a sustained and important account of an area that is usually hastily dismissed. Using the resources of contemporary philosophy - notably Deleuze and Lyotard - he manages to bring out the importance of nonsense' - Andrew Benjamin, University of Warwick

Why are we, and in particular why are philosophers and linguists, so fascinated with nonsense? Why do Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear appear in so many otherwise dull and dry academic books? This amusing, yet rigorous new book by Jean-Jacques Lecercle shows how the genre of nonsense was constructed and why it has proved so enduring and enlightening for linguistics and philosophy.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 17 Feb 1994

ISBN 10: 0415076536
ISBN 13: 9780415076531