Theology and Geometry

Leslie Marsh is senior researcher in the department of pathology and laboratory medicine at The University of British Columbia.

• Chapter 1: A Theory of Humor (Abridged) and the Comic Mechanisms of John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of DuncesH. Vernon LeightonChapter 2: The Literary Foolishness of Ignatius ReillyJessica Hooten WilsonChapter 3: ‘Amusingness Forced to Figure Itself Out’: Ignatius J. Reilly, Aesthetic Individualism, and the Modernism of Anti-ModernismKenneth McIntyreChapter 4: Theology and Geometry and Taste and DecencyLeslie MarshChapter 5: The Consolation of DuncesStephen UtzChapter 6: Ignatius Reilly as the Knight of FaithW. Kenneth HolditchChapter 7: John Kennedy Toole’s Queer Carnivalesque in A Confederacy of DuncesTison PughChapter 8: Ignatius’ Brain: Food and Sex in John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces Olga ColbertChapter 9: Dunces and Dialogue: Ignatius J. Reilly’s Menippean Misreadings and Onanistic Annotations of Boethian PhilosophyAnthony G. CirillaChapter 10: The Representation of Speech in A Confederacy of DuncesConnie EbleChapter 11: Thelma Toole: As HerselfChristopher R. Harris

“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. “