Theology and Geometry
Essays on John Kennedy Toole's a Confederacy of Dunces
Lexington Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 29. January 2020
202 pages
978-1-4985-8548-4 (ISBN)
Description
This collection, the first of its kind, brings together specially commissioned academic essays to mark fifty years since the death of John Kennedy Toole.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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4 b/w photos;
ISBN-13
978-1-4985-8548-4 (9781498585484)
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Leslie Marsh is senior researcher in the department of pathology and laboratory medicine at The University of British Columbia.
Content
Chapter 1: A Theory of Humor (Abridged) and the Comic Mechanisms of John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces
H. Vernon Leighton
Chapter 2: The Literary Foolishness of Ignatius Reilly
Jessica Hooten Wilson
Chapter 3: 'Amusingness Forced to Figure Itself Out': Ignatius J. Reilly, Aesthetic Individualism, and the Modernism of Anti-Modernism
Kenneth McIntyre
Chapter 4: Theology and Geometry and Taste and Decency
Leslie Marsh
Chapter 5: The Consolation of Dunces
Stephen Utz
Chapter 6: Ignatius Reilly as the Knight of Faith
W. Kenneth Holditch
Chapter 7: John Kennedy Toole's Queer Carnivalesque in A Confederacy of Dunces
Tison Pugh
Chapter 8: Ignatius' Brain: Food and Sex in John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces Olga Colbert
Chapter 9: Dunces and Dialogue: Ignatius J. Reilly's Menippean Misreadings and Onanistic Annotations of Boethian Philosophy
Anthony G. Cirilla
Chapter 10: The Representation of Speech in A Confederacy of Dunces
Connie Eble
Chapter 11: Thelma Toole: As Herself
Christopher R. Harris
H. Vernon Leighton
Chapter 2: The Literary Foolishness of Ignatius Reilly
Jessica Hooten Wilson
Chapter 3: 'Amusingness Forced to Figure Itself Out': Ignatius J. Reilly, Aesthetic Individualism, and the Modernism of Anti-Modernism
Kenneth McIntyre
Chapter 4: Theology and Geometry and Taste and Decency
Leslie Marsh
Chapter 5: The Consolation of Dunces
Stephen Utz
Chapter 6: Ignatius Reilly as the Knight of Faith
W. Kenneth Holditch
Chapter 7: John Kennedy Toole's Queer Carnivalesque in A Confederacy of Dunces
Tison Pugh
Chapter 8: Ignatius' Brain: Food and Sex in John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces Olga Colbert
Chapter 9: Dunces and Dialogue: Ignatius J. Reilly's Menippean Misreadings and Onanistic Annotations of Boethian Philosophy
Anthony G. Cirilla
Chapter 10: The Representation of Speech in A Confederacy of Dunces
Connie Eble
Chapter 11: Thelma Toole: As Herself
Christopher R. Harris
