The Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781399557382 (ISBN)
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The Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense is the first comprehensive treatment of its subject across historical periods, languages, cultures, and theoretical frameworks. Written by scholars in a range of disciplines from philosophy to music as well as literary critics and linguists, it provides the first overview of nonsense as a vital dimension of human creativity, drawing on insights from theology to queer studies, from India to Russia, and from Ancient Greece to the late modernism of the twentieth century. Responding to a growing interest in nonsense within the academy and reflecting the diversity of understandings that the term inspires, this book aims to advance nonsense as a developing critical field, and to inspire new areas of research.
Anna Barton is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield. Previous publications include, The Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense (with James Williams) (2021), Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Liberal Though: Forms of Freedom (2017), In Memoriam: A Reading Guide (2012) and Tennyson’s Name: Identity and Responsibility in the Poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2008). James Williams is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of York. He is the author of Edward Lear (Liverpool University Press, 2018) and co-editor, with Matthew Bevis, of Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry (OUP, 2016). He has published articles on Alfred Tennyson, Samuel Beckett, Lewis Carroll, and Victorian comic verse.
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Introduction: Companionable Nonsense - Anna Barton and James Williams
Part I: Notes towards a History of English Nonsense
1. Buba, Blictrix, Bufbaf: Medieval Theory and Practice of Nonsense - Jordan Kirk
2. ‘The Best Fooling’: Every Man Out of His Humour, Twelfth Night, and Early Modern English Nonsense Games - Rebecca Fall
3. Nonsense in the Age of Reason - Freya Johnston
4. ‘The Light of Sense | Goes Out’: Romantic Poetry and Victorian Nonsense Poetry - Peter Swaab
5. Victorian Nonsense and Its Kinships - Martin Dubois
6. Shady Pleasures: Modernist Nonsense - Noreen Masud
7. Mid-Century Nonsense and Destructive Mockery - Adam Piette
Part II: Global Nonsenses
8. In Search of Ancient Greek Nonsense - Sara Chiarini
9. Traditional Moorings, Modern Practices: Indian Literary Nonsense - Sumanyu Satpathy
10. Signs and Wonders: Two Approaches to Nonsense in Russia - Jamie Rann
11. ‘What’s the French for fiddle-de-dee?’: Nonsense in French - Alexandra Lukes
12. Italian Nonsense: Tradition, Translation, Translocation, Transcodification (and a Trinity) - Alessandro Giammei
Part III: Contexts and Connections
13. English ‘hibber-gibber’ and the ‘jargon of France’: Rabelaisian Nonsense in Translation - Hugh Roberts
14. Musical Foundations of Nonsense - Michael Heyman
15. Doubtful Girls and Silly Women: Nonsense and Gender - Anna Barton
16. Queer Nonsense: Query? - Hugh Haughton
17. Humans, and Other Nonsense Animals - Cassie Westwood
18. Nonsense Among the Philosophers - Michael Potter
19. ‘Word beyond Speech’: Nonsense and the Sacred - James Williams
Notes on Contributors
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.1.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities |
| Zusatzinfo | 17 black & white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 172 x 244 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781399557382 / 9781399557382 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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