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Where did Nonsense go?
One of the questions which are often asked about Nonsense is, Why did it disappear almost completely from literature after the great season of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll? As M.B. Heyman writes in his thesis (Isles of Boshen: Edward Lear’s literary nonsense in context, University of Glasgow, Faculty of Arts, Department of English Literature, [...]
Self-Reference in Lear s Limericks
The documents section of nonsenselit.org now contains a recent essay on Edward Lear:
Winfried Nöth. “The Art of Self-Reference in Edward Lear’s Limericks.” Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 10.1, 2005, pp. 47-66.
Many thanks to professor Nöth and the journal editors for permission to reproduce it.
The Owl and the Pussycat Went to See. . .
The Owl and the Pussycat Wen to See… is a musical play adapted from the verses and stories of Edward Lear by Sheila Ruskin and David Wood (who wrote the music and lyrics). The LP (Philips 6308022) was published in 1970 with a colourful hippy-style cover and features Harry Secombe (Narrator), Roy Castle (Owl) and [...]
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