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Author Parsons, Marnie

Title Touch monkeys : nonsense strategies for reading twentieth-century poetry / Marnie Parsons
Published Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©1994

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 262 pages) : illustrations
Series Theory/culture
Theory/culture series.
Contents Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- PART ONE -- 'Loppleton Leery' -- ONE: Runcible Relations: A Taxonomy of Nonsense Criticism and Theory -- 'Nobody' -- PART TWO -- TWO: 'Touch Monkeys': A Semanalytic Approach to Nonsense -- 'Hunting Song of the Bandar-Logician' -- THREE: 'There was an Old Man with a nose': Nonsense and the Body -- 'Becoming Visceral' -- FOUR: 'as birds as well as words': Nonsense and Sound -- 'O jongleurs, O belly laughs' -- FIVE: 'A Silly Corpse?': The 'L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E' Poets and the Nonsense of Reference -- 'What then is a window'
NotesBibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-250) and index
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Subject Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
Poetics.
Literature -- Philosophy.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
Literature -- Philosophy
Poetics
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442682702
1442682701