Chapter 1: A Theory of Humor (Abridged) and the Comic Mechanisms of
John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces
H. Vernon Leighton
Chapter 2: The Literary Foolishness of Ignatius Reilly
Jessica Hooten Wilson
Chapter 3: ‘Amusingness Forced to Figure Itself Out’: Ignatius J.
Reilly, Aesthetic Individualism, and the Modernism of
Anti-Modernism
Kenneth McIntyre
Chapter 4: Theology and Geometry and Taste and Decency
Leslie Marsh
Chapter 5: The Consolation of Dunces
Stephen Utz
Chapter 6: Ignatius Reilly as the Knight of Faith
W. Kenneth Holditch
Chapter 7: John Kennedy Toole’s Queer Carnivalesque in A
Confederacy of Dunces
Tison Pugh
Chapter 8: Ignatius’ Brain: Food and Sex in John Kennedy Toole’s A
Confederacy of Dunces Olga Colbert
Chapter 9: Dunces and Dialogue: Ignatius J. Reilly’s Menippean
Misreadings and Onanistic Annotations of Boethian Philosophy
Anthony G. Cirilla
Chapter 10: The Representation of Speech in A Confederacy of
Dunces
Connie Eble
Chapter 11: Thelma Toole: As Herself
Christopher R. Harris
Leslie Marsh is senior researcher in the department of pathology and laboratory medicine at The University of British Columbia.
“This eclectic anthology of chapters on A Confederacy of Dunces,
the first of its kind, represents a milestone event in Toole
studies, bringing together a diversity of perceptive approaches to
the novel. This outstanding collection should appeal to anyone
wishing to increase their appreciation and understanding of Toole’s
comic masterpiece. “
*Peter McCluskey, Middle Tennessee State University*
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