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Description

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

Product details

Published Mar 04 2022
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 202
ISBN 9781498585491
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 4 b/w photos;
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Series Politics, Literature, & Film
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Leslie Marsh

Contributor

Olga Colbert

Contributor

Matt Dawson

Contributor

Connie Eble

Contributor

Leslie Marsh

Contributor

Tison Pugh

Contributor

Stephen Utz

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