| In Praise of Nonsense: Kant and Bluebeard Contributor(s): Menninghaus, Winfried (Author), Pickford, Henry (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0804729514 ISBN-13: 9780804729512 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 809.914 |
| LCCN: 98-48247 |
| Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.7" W x 8.6" (0.95 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |