This collection, the first of its kind, brings together specially commissioned academic essays to mark fifty years since the death of John Kennedy Toole.
Recenzijas
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 Tooles comic masterpiece. -- Peter McCluskey, Middle Tennessee State University
Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
xv
1 A Theory of Humor (Abridged) and the Comic Mechanisms of John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces
1
(22)
H. Vernon Leighton
2 The Literary Foolishness of Ignatius Reilly
23
(14)
Jessica Hooten Wilson
3 "Amusingness Forced to Figure Itself Out": Ignatius J. Reilly, Aesthetic Individualism, and the Modernism of Anti-Modernism
37
(24)
Kenneth B. McIntyre
4 Theology and Geometry and Taste and Decency
61
(18)
Leslie Marsh
5 The Consolation of Dunces
79
(14)
Stephen Utz
6 Ignatius Reilly as the Knight of Faith
93
(12)
W. Kenneth Holditch
7 John Kennedy Toole's Queer Carnivalesque in A Confederacy of Dunces
105
(18)
Tison Pugh
8 Ignatius's Brain: Food and Sex in John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces
123
(18)
Olga Colbert
9 Dunces and Dialogue: Ignatius J. Reilly's Menippean Misreadings and Onanistic Annotations of Boethian Philosophy
141
(18)
Anthony G. Cirilla
10 The Representation of Speech in A Confederacy of Dunces
159
(12)
Connie Eble
11 Thelma Toole: As Herself
171
(4)
Christopher R. Harris
Index
175
(4)
About the Editor and Contributors
179
Leslie Marsh is senior researcher in the department of pathology and laboratory medicine at The University of British Columbia.
