The Owl and Her Shoes is a nonsense tale told in rhyming verse about an owl named Josie-Marie who flies away to buy some shoes. Also includes other nonsense rhyming verses, and pictures that children can colour in.

This book employs the concept of 'nonsense' to explore those parts of Greek comedy perceived as 'just silly' and therefore 'not meaningful'.

Explores the cognitive possibilities of nonsense, literary and philosophical, from Kant to Carroll, from examinations of Asperger's to the waking state.

In The Sound of Nonsense, Richard Elliott highlights the importance of sound in understanding the 'nonsense' of writers such as Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, James Joyce and Mervyn Peake, before connecting this noisy writing to works which engage more directly with sound, including sound poetry, experimental music and pop. By emphasising sonic factors, Elliott makes new and fascinating connections between a wide range of artistic examples to ultimately build a case for the importance of sound in creating, maintaining and disrupting meaning.

This text reflects developing trends in linguistic research, specifically the study of syntax and its pivotal position in current theories of language acquisition.

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) has exerted a more powerful influence on current philosophy than any other twentieth-century thinker. Twelve contemporary philosophers explore the nature of this influence and why it has proved so enduring.