Necessary Nonsense: Aesthetics, History, Neurology, Psychology

by Irving Massey

Book Overview

What is nonsense? How has it permeated our day-to-day speech and thought processes in order to become a vital part of the way we interpret the world? In Necessary Nonsense: Aesthetics, History, Neurology, Psychology, world-renowned expert Irving Massey commits nearly forty years of scholarly musings on the topic of nonsense to the page. Employing a writing style of overlap, repetition, discontinuity, and contradiction in order to describe the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814254969
• ISBN13: 9780814254967
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"