Nonsense and Other Senses: Regulated Absurdity in Literature
ISBN: 9781443810067
Vydavatelství: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Rok vydání: 2009
Vazba: Hardback
Počet stran: 465
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The contributors to the volume are established and younger scholars from various countries. Chronologically, the chapters range widely from Dante to V__clav Havel, and offer a large span of national literatures (Czech, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese) and literary genres (poetry, prose, and drama), inviting the readers to trace their own pathway and draw their own lines of connection. One point that emerges with particular force is the notion that what distinguishes literary nonsense is its somehow regulated” nature. Literary nonsense thus sounds like a deliberate, last-ditch attempt to snatch order from the jaws of chaos—the speech of the Fool” as opposed to the tale told by an idiot. It is this kind of post-Derridean retrieval of choice as the defining element in semantic transactions which is perhaps the most significant insight bequeathed by the study of nonsense to the analysis of poetry and literature in general.