Theology and geometry
Subtitle: essays on John Kennedy Toole's A confederacy of dunces
By: edited by Leslie Marsh
Contributors: Cirilla, Anthony G.; Colbert, Olga; Dawson, Matt; Eble, Connie; Harris, Christopher R.; Wilson, Jessica Hooten; Leighton, H. Vernon; McIntyre, Kenneth B.
Series: Politics, Literature, & Film; Politics, literature, & film
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781498585484
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature; Mothers and sons; Confederacy of dunces (Toole, John Kennedy)
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: title: Cover; title: Theology and Geometry; title: Series page; title: Theology and Geometry: Essays on John Kennedy Toole'sA Confederacy of Dunces; title: Copyright page; title: Contents; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgments; title: Chapter 1; title: A Theory of Humor (Abridged) and the Comic Mechanisms of John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces; title: A Theory of Humor (Abridged); title: Genre and Plot; title: Character and Structural Incongruities; title: Comic Devices; title: Physical Comedy and Carnival; title: The Fool; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Chapter 2; title: The Literary Foolishness of Ignatius Reilly; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Chapter 3; title: "Amusingness Forced to Figure Itself Out"; title: Ignatius as an Aesthetic Creation; title: Ignatius as an Aesthete and Individualist; title: Conclusion on Despair; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Chapter 4; title: Theology and Geometry and Taste and Decency; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Chapter 5; title: The Consolation of Dunces; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Chapter 6; title: Ignatius Reilly as the Knight of Faith; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Chapter 7; title: John Kennedy Toole's Queer Carnivalesque in A Confederacy of Dunces; title: Toole and the Literary Carnivalesque; title: Toole's Queer Carnivalesque; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Chapter 8; title: Ignatius's Brain; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Chapter 9; title: Dunces and Dialogue; title: Menippean Masturbation and Ignatius Reilly's Big Chief Tablets; title: The Onanistic Rape of Philosophy; title: Ignatius's Dialogic Dysfunction and the Copulative Nature of Boethian Communication; title: Audience Awareness and Ignatius as Toole's Negative, yet Sympathetic, Exemplum; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Chapter 10; title: The Representation of Speech in A Confederacy of Dunces; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Chapter 11; title: Thelma Toole; title: Note; title: Index; title: About the Editor and Contributors