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aesthetics, history, neurology, psychology
viii, 188 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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.
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.
Includes bibliographical referencess (pages 165-178) and index.