{"product_id":"nonsense-9780801839818","title":"Nonsense","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom a comic strip papyrus dating from Egypt's New Kingdom to the works of Stein, Joyce, and Barth, nonsense texts reveal a set of possibilities as rich and complex as the more conventional system of making sense from which they are derived. Examining palindromes, children's rhymes, puns, anagrams, code languages, and other texts, Susan Stewart explores the labyrinthine relationships between common sense and nonsense-- and presents an original contribution to the fields of folklore, literary theory, anthropology, and sociology by analyzing nonsense within an expansive context of the social manufacture of order and disorder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Common Sense and Fictive Universes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Making Common Sense\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Some Operations and Affinities\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Making Nonsense\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Reversals and Inversions\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Play with Boundaries\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Play with Infinity\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. The Uses of Simultaneity\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Arrangement and Rearrangement within a Closed Field\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Conclusion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Change's Sensibility\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405184180567,"sku":"9780801839818","price":25.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/nonsense-9780801839818","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}