Theology and Geometry

doi:10.5771/9781498585484

Theology and Geometry

Essays on John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces

1. Auflage 2020

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doi.org/10.5771/9781498585484
ISBN print: 978-1-4985-8547-7
ISBN online: 978-1-4985-8548-4
Lexington, Lanham Lexington, Lanham

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Abstract

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

Schlagworte

New Orleans A Confederacy of Dunces Boethius John Kennedy Toole Southern literature Walker Percy philosophical literature cultural criticism

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Preface
1–22 Chapter 1 A Theory of Humor (Abridged) and the Comic Mechanisms of John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces 1–22
23–36 Chapter 2 The Literary Foolishness of Ignatius Reilly 23–36
37–60 Chapter 3 “Amusingness Forced to Figure Itself Out” 37–60
61–78 Chapter 4 Theology and Geometry and Taste and Decency 61–78
Chapter 5 The Consolation of Dunces
93–104 Chapter 6 Ignatius Reilly as the Knight of Faith 93–104
105–122 Chapter 7 John Kennedy Toole’s Queer Carnivalesque in A Confederacy of Dunces 105–122
123–140 Chapter 8 Ignatius’s Brain 123–140
141–158 Chapter 9 Dunces and Dialogue 141–158
159–170 Chapter 10 The Representation of Speech in A Confederacy of Dunces 159–170
171–174 Chapter 11 Thelma Toole 171–174
175–178 Index 175–178
179–182 About the Editor and Contributors 179–182

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