Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Preface xvii
5. Part One
6. 'Loppleton Leery' 3
7. 1. Runcible Relations: A Taxonomy of Nonsense Criticism and Theory 10
8. 'Nobody' 50
9. Part Two
10. 2. Touch Monkeys': A Semanalytic Approach to Nonsense 57
11. 'Hunting Song of the 'Bandar-Logician' 83
12. 3. There was an Old Man with a nose': Nonsense and the Body 87
13. 'Becoming Visceral' 115
14. 4. "as birds as well as words': Nonsense and Sound 120
15. 'O jongleurs, O belly laughs' 165
16. 5. 'A Silly Corpse?': The 'L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E' Poets and the Nonsense of Reference 170
17. 'What then is a window' 206
18. Notes 217
19. Bibliography 237
20. Index 251