Author: Antony Mitchell-Waite
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2013-04-22
Total Pages: 35
ISBN-13: 1291394214
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Owl and Her Shoes is a nonsense tale told in rhyming verse about an owl named Josie-Marie who flies away to buy some shoes. Also includes other nonsense rhyming verses, and pictures that children can colour in.
Author: Stephen E. Kidd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-06-12
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1107050154
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book employs the concept of 'nonsense' to explore those parts of Greek comedy perceived as 'just silly' and therefore 'not meaningful'.
Author: Markus Gabriel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2024-05-07
Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 0674296699
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A leading German philosopher offers his most ambitious work yet on the nature of knowledge, arguing that being wrong about things defines the human condition. For millennia, philosophers have dedicated themselves to advancing understanding of the nature of truth and reality. In the process they have amassed a great deal of epistemological theory—knowledge about knowledge. But negative epistemological phenomena, such as ignorance, falsity, illusion, and delusion, are persistently overlooked. This is surprising given that we all know how fallible humans are. Sense, Nonsense, and Subjectivity replies with a theory of false thought, demonstrating that being wrong about things is part and parcel of subjectivity itself. For this reason, knowledge can never be secured without our making claims that can always, in principle, be wrong. Even in successful cases, where we get something right and thereby gain knowledge, the possibility of failure lingers with us. Markus Gabriel grounds this argument in a novel account of the relationship between sense, nonsense, and subjectivity—phenomena that hang together in the temporal unfolding of our cognitive lives. While most philosophers continue to theorize subjectivity in terms of conscious self-representation and the supposedly infallible grip we have on ourselves as thinkers, Sense, Nonsense, and Subjectivity addresses the age-old Platonic challenge to understand situations in which we do not get reality right. Adding a stimulating perspective on epistemic failures to the work of New Realism, Gabriel addresses long-standing ontological questions in an age where the line between the real and the fake is increasingly blurred.
Author: Irving Massey
Publisher: Cognitive Approaches to Cultur
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780814213797
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the cognitive possibilities of nonsense, literary and philosophical, from Kant to Carroll, from examinations of Asperger's to the waking state.
Author: Winfried Menninghaus
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1999-10
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780804729529
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ludwig Tieck's 1797 rewriting of Charles Perrault's famous Bluebeard tale (1697) explicitly claims to be an "arabesque" book "without any sense and coherence." The author's close reading of this capricious narrative, based on Kant's theory of what it means to produce nonsense, reveals a specifically Romantic type of nonsense.
Author: Josephine Gabelman
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2016-09-08
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1532601891
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There is within all theological utterances something of the ridiculous, perhaps more so in Christianity, given its proclivity for the paradoxical and the childlike. Yet, few theologians are willing to discuss that consent to the Christian doctrine often requires a faith that goes beyond reason or does not exclusively identify with it. There seems to be a fear that the association of theology with the absurd will give fuel to the skeptic's refrain: "you can't seriously believe in all that nonsense." This book considers the legitimacy of the skeptic's objection and rather than trying to explain away points of logical contradiction, the author explores the possibility that an idea can be contrary to rationality and also true and meaningful. The study involves the systematic analysis of central stylistic features of literary nonsense using Lewis Carroll's famous Alice stories as exemplar. The project culminates in the setting up of a nonsense theology by considering the practical and evangelical ramifications of associating Christian faith with nonsense literature; and conversely, the value of relating theological principles to the study of literary nonsense. Ultimately, the research suggests that faith is always a risk and that a strictly rational apologetic misrepresents the nature of Christian truth.
Author: Elisabetta Tarantino with the collaboration of Carlo Caruso
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2020-07-24
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 1527557200
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book deals with a topic that is gaining increasing critical attention, the literature of nonsense and absurdity. The volume gathers together twenty-one essays on various aspects of literary nonsense, according to criteria that are deliberately inclusive and eclectic. Its purpose is to offer a gallery of “nonsense practices” in literature across periods and countries, in the conviction that important critical insights can be gained from these juxtapositions. Most of the cases presented here deal with linguistic nonsense, but in a few instances the nonsense operates at the higher level of the interpretation of reality on the part of the subject—or of the impossibility thereof. The contributors to the volume are established and younger scholars from various countries. Chronologically, the chapters range widely from Dante to Václav Havel, and offer a large span of national literatures (Czech, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese) and literary genres (poetry, prose, and drama), inviting the readers to trace their own pathway and draw their own lines of connection. One point that emerges with particular force is the notion that what distinguishes literary nonsense is its somehow “regulated” nature. Literary nonsense thus sounds like a deliberate, last-ditch attempt to snatch order from the jaws of chaos—the speech of the “Fool” as opposed to the tale told by an idiot. It is this kind of post-Derridean retrieval of choice as the defining element in semantic transactions which is perhaps the most significant insight bequeathed by the study of nonsense to the analysis of poetry and literature in general.
Author: Symon Hill
Publisher: New Internationalist
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 1906523290
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Religion is a term which is often used in the media and public life without any clarification. However, it is a word that encompasses hundreds of different beliefs. It is also a loaded word that has a different meaning for each person. Religion can be seen as a source of war and peace, love and hate, dialogue and narrow-mindedness. Today, thanks to the globalisation of communications, more people than ever before belong to a different religious community than their parents. This No-Nonsense Guide considers how religion has shaped culture.
Author: Mervyn Peake
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780720611632
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of illustrated nonsensical poems from the celebrated author and illustrator of the Gormenghast Trilogy.