Theology and Geometry - Essays on John Kennedy Tooles a Confederacy of Dunces

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

List 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

About the author

Leslie Marsh is senior researcher in the department of pathology and laboratory medicine at The University of British Columbia.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Leslie Marsh
• Assisted by: Leslie Marsh (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781498585491
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8549-1
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Politics, Literature, & Film
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Political science & theory, Literary studies: general, Political science and theory