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Philosophy of Nonsense: The Intuitions of Victorian Nonsense Literature
Author(s): Jean-Jacques Lecercle (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 22 Jan. 2002
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415076536
- ISBN-13: 9780415076531
Book Description
‘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.
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About the Author
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.
