In Praise of Nonsense: Kant & Bluebeard

By Winfried Menninghaus and winfried-menninghaus

Book Overview

Ludwig Tieck's 1797 rewriting of Charles Perrault's famous Bluebeard tale (1697) explicitly claims to be an "arabesque" book "without any sense and coherence." The author's close reading of this capricious narrative, based on Kant's theory of what it means to produce nonsense, reveals a specifically Romantic type of nonsense.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804729522
• ISBN13: 9780804729529
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"