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Theology and geometry : essays on John Kennedy Toole's A confederacy of dunces / edited by Leslie Marsh.
Van Pelt Library PS3570.O54 Z74 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Politics, literature, & film
- Politics, Literature, & Film
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Toole, John Kennedy, 1937-1969--Criticism and interpretation.
- Toole, John Kennedy.
- Toole, John Kennedy, 1937-1969.
- Mothers and sons--Louisiana--New Orleans--Fiction.
- Mothers and sons.
- Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 203 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2020]
- Summary:
- This collection, the first of its kind, brings together specially commissioned academic essays to mark fifty years since the death of John Kennedy Toole.
- Contents:
- Preface / Leslie Marsh
- A Theory of Humor (Abridged) and the Comic Mechanisms of John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces / H. Vernon Leighton
- The Literary Foolishness of Ignatius Reilly / Jessica Hooten Wilson
- "Amusingness Forced to Figure Itself Out" : Ignatius J. Reilly , Aesthetic Individualism, and the Modernism of Anti-Modernism / Kenneth B. McIntyre
- Theology and Geometry and Taste and Decency / Leslie Marsh
- The Consolation of Dunces / Stephen Utz
- Ignatius Reilly as the Knight of Faith / W. Kewnneth Holditch
- John Kennedy Toole's Queer Carnivalesque in A Confederacy of Dunces / Tison Pugh
- Ignatius's Brain: food and sex in John Kennedy O'Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces / Olga Colbert
- Dunces and Dialogue: Ignatius J. Riley's Menippean Misreadings and Onanistic Annotations of Boethian Philosophy / Anthony G. Cirilla
- The Representation of Speech in A Confederacy of Dunces / Connie Eble
- Thelma Toole: As Herself / Christopher R. Harris
- Note
- Index
- About the Editor and Contributors
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781498585477
- 1498585477
- OCLC:
- 1140509577
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