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essays on John Kennedy Toole's A confederacy of dunces

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An edition of Theology and Geometry (2020)

Theology and geometry

essays on John Kennedy Toole's A confederacy of dunces

by , , , and

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

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Cover of: Theology and Geometry
Theology and Geometry: Essays on John Kennedy Toole's a Confederacy of Dunces
2022, Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
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2020, Lexington Books
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Theology and Geometry: Essays on John Kennedy Toole's a Confederacy of Dunces
2020, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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Table of Contents

Cover
Theology and Geometry
Series page
Theology and Geometry: Essays on John Kennedy Toole'sA Confederacy of Dunces
Copyright page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1
A Theory of Humor (Abridged) and the Comic Mechanisms of John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces
A Theory of Humor (Abridged)
Genre and Plot
Character and Structural Incongruities
Comic Devices
Physical Comedy and Carnival
The Fool
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 2
The Literary Foolishness of Ignatius Reilly
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 3
"Amusingness Forced to Figure Itself Out"
Ignatius as an Aesthetic Creation
Ignatius as an Aesthete and Individualist
Conclusion on Despair
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 4
Theology and Geometry and Taste and Decency
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 5
The Consolation of Dunces
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 6
Ignatius Reilly as the Knight of Faith
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 7
John Kennedy Toole's Queer Carnivalesque in A Confederacy of Dunces
Toole and the Literary Carnivalesque
Toole's Queer Carnivalesque
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 8
Ignatius's Brain
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 9
Dunces and Dialogue
Menippean Masturbation and Ignatius Reilly's Big Chief Tablets
The Onanistic Rape of Philosophy
Ignatius's Dialogic Dysfunction and the Copulative Nature of Boethian Communication
Audience Awareness and Ignatius as Toole's Negative, yet Sympathetic, Exemplum
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 10
The Representation of Speech in A Confederacy of Dunces
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 11
Thelma Toole
Note
Index
About the Editor and Contributors

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Politics, Literature, & Film, Politics, literature, & film

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Dewey Decimal Class
813.54
Library of Congress
PS3570.O54 Z74 2020

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Pagination
1 online resource

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OL44081363M
ISBN 10
1498585485
ISBN 13
9781498585484
OCLC/WorldCat
1138680447

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