John Kennedy Toole Research, and Other Research and Musings by Vernon Leighton

A place for research and musings by Vernon Leighton. The blog began with literary research on the novel A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole, but it has expanded to include research on the theory of humor and mirth, research on artificial intelligence LLMs, and research on literary criticism itself, including Evolutionary Literary Criticism (ELC) and Cultural Evolutionary Criticism (CELC). There was even a brief exploration of Stanislaw Lem's Solaris.

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

New version of Evidence of Influences on John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces

My website for John Kennedy Toole Research moved to a new location. Because my "Evidence of Influences on John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces" paper includes within itself its own URL, I decided it was time to create a new version of the paper. Version 2.1 includes references to MacLaughlin's Butterfly in the Typewriter, as well as an acknowledgement of my other work, such as my "Dialectic of American Humanism" paper. I have removed version 1.3 from the server and have kept a copy of version 2.0 there for download. I will try to keep a copy of 2.0 available, because it is the version that has been cited in the literature.