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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
Contributor:
Marsh, Leslie, editor.
Cirilla, Anthony G., contributor.
Colbert, Olga, contributor.
Dawson, Matt, contributor.
Eble, Connie, contributor.
Harris, Christopher R., contributor.
Wilson, Jessica Hooten, contributor.
Leighton, H. Vernon, contributor.
Marsh, Leslie, contributor.
McIntyre, Kenneth B., contributor.
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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