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Zusatztext "This eclectic anthology of chapters on A Confederacy of Dunces! the first of its kind! represents a milestone event in Toole studies! bringing together a diversity of perceptive approaches to the novel. This outstanding collection should appeal to anyone wishing to increase their appreciation and understanding of Toole's comic masterpiece. " Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext This collection, the first of its kind, brings together specially commissioned academic essays to mark fifty years since the death of John Kennedy Toole. Zusammenfassung This collection! the first of its kind! brings together specially commissioned academic essays to mark fifty years since the death of John Kennedy Toole. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
