Precious nonsense
the Gettysburg address, Ben Jonson's epitaphs on his children, and Twelfth night
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Publication
1998 - University of California Press, Berkeley, United States
Language
English
Word Count
54,500 words, Guess
Page Count
218 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL22450089M
- ISBN-100520212886
- OCLC Control Number37341339
- Library of Congress Control Number97027979
- LibraryThing755952
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- Goodreads392646
Classifications
- DDC820.9
- LCCPR428.N65
Description
What is it about our experience of great literature that makes us treasure these works so highly? Stephen Booth suggests that a great source, perhaps the great source, of the special appeal of our most valued works is that they are, in one way or another, utterly nonsensical. Reading the rhetorical tangles, the illogical leaps, and the most absurd imagery of three disparate texts - the Gettysburg Address, Ben Jonson's Epitaphs on his children, and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night - Booth demonstrates how poetics triumph over logic in the "mind games" that enrich the experience of reading.
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