The Edinburgh companion to nonsense.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barton, Anna, 1979- author.

Williams, James, author.

Series:

Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities Series

Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nonsense literature--History and criticism.

Nonsense literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Provides a wide-ranging account of the different disciplinary, critical and theoretical contexts relevant to the study of nonsense.

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

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Other Format:

Print version: Barton, Anna The Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense

ISBN:

9781474423861

1474423868

9781474423854

147442385X

OCLC:

1292732018