Theology and Geometry

Essays on John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces
Herausgeber: Marsh, Leslie

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection, the first of its kind, brings together specially commissioned academic essays to mark fifty years since the death of John Kennedy Toole.

Produktdetails

• Politics, Literature, & Film
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9781498585477
• ISBN-10: 1498585477
• Artikelnr.: 58409288

Autorenporträt

Edited by Leslie Marsh - Contributions by Anthony G. Cirilla; Olga Colbert; Matt Dawson; Connie Eble; Christopher R. Harris; Jessica Hooten Wilson; H. Vernon Leighton; Leslie Marsh; Kenneth B. McIntyre; Tison Pugh and Stephen Utz

Inhaltsangabe

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