In Search of (Non)Sense.

TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; MAKING SENSE OF (NON)SENSE; PHILOSOPHY IN LANGUAGE, LANGUAGE IN PHILOSOPHY; BETWEEN THE ALMAGEST AND THE REVOLUTIONS ... ; WHAT DOWEMEAN BY WORLDVIEW? THE SENSE WE GIVE TO OURWORLD; METAPHOR IN PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE; MULTIPLE-LEVEL SENSEIN LITERARY TEXTS; THE RECREATION OF SYMBOLIC IMAGES IN LITERATURE; THE POETICS OF 'REFLECTION' IN VIRGINIA WOOLF'S SHORT FICTION; IN SEARCH OF PHRASEO-SENSE; FIGURES OF TEXT- FIGURES OF INTERPRETATION; PHILOSOPHICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF METATROPES; METAPHOR AND NARRATIVE. WITH REFERENCES TO NIETZSCHE'S BILDUNGSANSTALTEN.

PHENOMENOLOGICAL VIEW OF MACROSYNECDOCHEOXYMORON, HENDIADYS AND CO-ORDINATE STRUCTURES -- SHAKESPEARE FROM DUALITY TO INDIVISION; IRONY; (NON)SENSICALITY OF HUMOUR; SALIENCE OF INCONGRUITIES IN HUMOROUS TEXTS AND THEIR RESOLUTION; PERCEPTUAL IMAGERY IN HUMOUR PROCESSING; MAKING SENSE OF VERBAL AND NON-VERBAL IMAGERY IN LITERATURE; IMAGE SCHEMAS AS A WAY TO ANALYSE WORDS AND IMAGES; THE QUEST FOR SELF-IDENTITY; SENSING AND MAKING SENSE OF ILLUSIONS -- PAUL AUSTER'S SELF-CHRONIC SPACE OF THE TEXT; HOW CAN BOOKS BEMADE; OF PORTALS AND PALACES.

WHAT BOOKS HAVE THAT FILMS LACK, OR THE STRUCTURE OF THE CONCEPT BOOK AND INTERPRETABILITY EXPECTATIONSWHY A BOOK IS SO IMP-ORT-AND ... ; NOTES ABOUT AUTHORS.

... It would seem natural to assume that the disciplines of literary studies and linguistics should by rights converge regularly to exchange views as each pursues its own goals. Is such a convergence possible on the question of sense and nonsense? James W. Underhill (this volume) The contributors to the present volume have focused their attention on two sets of problems that are leitmotifs in all the articles gathered. Firstly, should literary semantics - the linguistic study of texts/d ...

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