Theology and Geometry

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

Like a multi-faceted jewel, A Confederacy of Dunces refracts light at multiple angles, beckoning the reader to peer beneath its surface. And certainly, much is to be found within its enthralling pages. Those who look might find in the glimmering a suggestion of something more, and Theology and Geometry will certainly help the reader to see it.

• 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