Making sense of N/nonsense in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman, a Wittgensteinian perspective
This paper examines the question of nonsense through a series of examples taken from Flann O’Brien’s satirical novels. Starting from Wittgenstein’s claim in the Tractatus that any reflexive discourse on language is itself nonsensical and that nonsense lies outside the realm of what can be talked abo...
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| Main Author: | Flore Coulouma |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cercle linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest - CerLICO
2012-01-01
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| Series: | Corela |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/corela/2449 |
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