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Beschreibung

'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.

'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.

Über den Autor
Jean-Jacques Lecercle is Professor of English at the University of Paris. He is the author of Philosophy Through the Looking Glass, Frankenstein: Mythe et Philosophie and The Violence of Language.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION: READING NONSENSE READING Reading nonsense; Nonsense reading: Lewis Carroll and the Talmud; Rereading nonsense: 'Jabberwocky' 1 THE LINGUISTICS OF NONSENSE 2 THE PRAGMATICS OF NONSENSE 3 NONSENSE AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE 4 THE POLYPHONY OF NONSENSE CONCLUSION
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika, Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780415076531
ISBN-10: 0415076536
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lecercle, Jean-Jacques
Hersteller: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 139 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Jean-Jacques Lecercle
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.02.1994
Gewicht: 0,381 kg
Artikel-ID: 130026740