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Author:

Massey, Irving, author.

Title:

Necessary nonsense : aesthetics, history, neurology, psychology / Irving Massey.

Publisher:

The Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

viii, 188 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Nonsense literature--History and criticism.
Literature--Aesthetics.
Literature--Psychology.
Literature--Aesthetics.
Literature--Psychology.
Nonsense literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical referencess (pages 165-178) and index.

Contents:

Nonsense: usage and uses -- Metaphor and nonsense -- The baroque: nonsense in prospect and retrospect -- Salutary nonsense: Keats, Kant, and Madame de Staël; or inspiration vs. fanaticism -- Neural nonsense: neuroaesthetics, hypnagogia, and the aesthetics of nonsense -- Perceptual nonsense: the "image made by chance," automaticity, and the aesthetic universal -- Assorted nonsense.

Summary:

"This book explores the cognitive possibilities of nonsense, literary and philosophical--ranging from Immanuel Kant to Lewis Carol, from examinations of Asperger's Syndrome to the waking state--and demonstrates that there is an element of nonsense, or stage of nonsense, in the normal course of thought"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Cognitive approaches to culture

ISBN:

0814213790
9780814213797

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1029447267

LCCN:

2018026442

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)