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Essays on John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces
Theology and Geometry
Essays on John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces
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This collection, the first of its kind, brings together specially commissioned academic essays to mark fifty years since the death of John Kennedy Toole.
Table of Contents
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
Product details
Published | Jan 29 2020 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 202 |
ISBN | 9781498585484 |
Imprint | Lexington Books |
Illustrations | 4 b/w photos; |
Series | Politics, Literature, & Film |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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