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Author : Brian C. Alexander
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504967303
With poems that range from the freedom of a small gray bird to tales of madness within the minds of men, “Nonsense Creatures” contains a parade of shadowy, lighthearted stories and poems to fit the brightest or dimmest of moods.
Author : Wim Tigges
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004484023
Author : Edward Lear
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780486119465
Every line of every nonsense book written by the celebrated humorist and author of "The Owl and the Pussycat." Illustrated by more than 500 of Lear's quirky drawings. Includes two selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Author : George Carlson
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781606995082
Perfect Nonsense tells the complete story behind one of the most innovative and under-rated Golden Age artists, classic children’s illustrators, and nonsense poets in American history. For more than 50 years, George Carlson created thousands of distinctive and dynamic cartoons, comics, riddles, and games that thrilled both children and adults with their fanciful spirit and nonsensical humor. There has never been a career retrospective of this startling cartoonist and illustrator ― until now! Carlson’s inspired cartoons ― ranging from the intellectual to the surreal ― place him at home with not only acknowledged masters of American humor like George Herriman, S. J. Perelman, Milt Gross, Bill Holman, and Jack Kent, but also globally celebrated absurdists like Beckett, Pirandello, and his life-long inspiration, Lewis Carroll.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004484252
Author : Philip Nel
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826417086
Philip Nel takes a fascinating look into the key aspects of Seuss's career - his poetry, politics, art, marketing, and place in the popular imagination." "Nel argues convincingly that Dr. Seuss is one of the most influential poets in America. His nonsense verse, like that of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, has changed language itself, giving us new words like "nerd." And Seuss's famously loopy artistic style - what Nel terms an "energetic cartoon surrealism" - has been equally important, inspiring artists like filmmaker Tim Burton and illustrator Lane Smith. --from back cover
Author : George Edinger,E.J.C. Neep,Gerald Gould,Robert Graves,Richard Paget
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135029050
Pons Asinorum Or The Future of Nonsense George Edinger and E J C Neep Originally published in 1929. "A most entertaining essay, rich in quotation from the old masters of clownship’s craft." Saturday Review The author maintains that true nonsense must be aimless humour – the humour that makes fun as opposed to the humour that makes fun of something. 88pp Democritus Or The Future of Laughter Gerald Gould Originally published in 1929. "Democritus is bound to be among the favourites of the series. Gould’s humour glances at history, morality, and humanity...wise and witty writing." Observer Democritus is intended to illustrate the prevailing fashion in laughter and on the basis of historical and philosophical principles to forecast the humour of the future. 90pp Mrs Fisher Or The Future of Humour Robert Graves Originally published in 1928 "Mr Graves is the best man who could have been chosen to write on this subject." Daily Express "...perfectly irresponsible, as a joker should be." The Times This volume analyzes humour with a solemnity which becomes almost nightmarish. 90pp Babel Or the Past, Present and Future of Human Speech Richard Paget Originally published in 1930. "...stimulating and absorbing." Journal of Education This volume discusses human speech and treats it as a growth which must be tamed if it is to fulfil its highest purpose as a symbolism for human thought. 86pp
Author : Thomas Byrom
Publisher : Dutton Adult
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037124125
A study of the limericks and cartoons of the celebrated English nonsense poet and painter establishes him as an artist of great originality and modern sensibility.
Author : Hal Johnson
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781523508488
Meet the monsters in this who’s who of the baddest of the bad! Like those supernatural beasts everyone knows and fears—the bloodsucking vampire, Count Dracula, and that eight-foot-tall mash-up of corpses, Frankenstein’s Monster. Or that scariest of mummies, Cheops, who scientists revived after 4,700 years—big mistake! Or more horrifying yet, the Horla, an invisible, havoc-wreaking creature that herds humans like cattle and feeds of their souls. Drawn from the pages of classic books and tales as old as time, this frightfully exciting collection features 25 of the creepiest creatures ever imagined, from witches and werewolves to dragons and ghosts. Every monster is brought to life in a full-size full-color portrait that captures the essence of the beast, and in lively text that recounts the monster’s spine-tingling story. With sidebars that explore the history and the genre of each sourcebook, The Big Book of Monsters is an exciting introduction to literature and language arts.
Author : Cecilia Konchar Farr
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496839350
Contributions by Lauren R. Carmacci, Keridiana Chez, Kate Glassman, John Granger, Marie Schilling Grogan, Beatrice Groves, Tolonda Henderson, Nusaiba Imady, Cecilia Konchar Farr, Juliana Valadão Lopes, Amy Mars, Christina Phillips-Mattson, Patrick McCauley, Jennifer M. Reeher, Jonathan A. Rose, and Emily Strand Despite their decades-long, phenomenal success, the Harry Potter novels have attracted relatively little attention from literary critics and scholars. While popular books, articles, blogs, and fan sites for general readers proliferate, and while philosophers, historians, theologians, sociologists, psychologists, and even business professors have taken on book-length studies and edited essay collections about Harry Potter, literature scholars, outside of the children’s books community, have paid few serious visits to the Potterverse. Could it be that scholars are still reluctant to recognize popular novels, especially those with genre labels “children’s literature” or “fantasy,” as worthy subjects for academic study? This book challenges that oversight, assembling and foregrounding some of the best literary critical work by scholars trying to move the needle on these novels to reflect their importance to twenty-first-century literary culture. In Open at the Close, contributors consciously address Harry Potter primarily as a literary phenomenon rather than a cultural one. They interrogate the novels on many levels, from multiple perspectives, and with various conclusions, but they come together around the overarching question: What is it about these books? At their heart, what is it that makes the Harry Potter novels so exceptionally compelling, so irresistible to their readers, and so relevant in our time?
Author : Ann C. Colley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134766529
What did the 13th Earl of Derby, his twenty-two-year-old niece, Manchester’s Belle Vue Zoo, and even some ordinary laborers all have in common? All were avid collectors and exhibitors of exotic, and frequently unruly, specimens. In her study of Britain’s craze for natural history collecting, Ann C. Colley makes extensive use of archival materials to examine the challenges, preoccupations, and disordered circumstances that attended the amassing of specimens from faraway places only vaguely known to the British public. As scientific institutions sent collectors to bring back exotic animals and birds for study and classification by anatomists and zoologist, it soon became apparent that collecting skins rather than live animals or birds was a relatively more manageable endeavor. Colley looks at the collecting, exhibiting, and portraying of animal skins to show their importance as trophies of empire and representations of identity. While a zoo might display skins to promote and glorify Britain’s colonial achievements, Colley suggests that the reality of collecting was characterized more by chaos than imperial order. For example, Edward Lear’s commissioned illustrations of the Earl of Derby’s extensive collection challenge the colonial’s or collector’s commanding gaze, while the Victorian public demonstrated a yearning to connect with their own wildness by touching the skins of animals. Colley concludes with a discussion of the metaphorical uses of wild skins by Gerard Manley Hopkins and other writers, exploring the idea of skin as a locus of memory and touch where one’s past can be traced in the same way that nineteenth-century mapmakers charted a landscape. Throughout the book Colley calls upon recent theories about the nature and function of skin and touch to structure her discussion of the Victorian fascination with wild animal skins.
Author : Jean-Jacques Lecercle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134902415
'Jean-Jacques Lecercle's remarkable Philosophy of Nonsense offers a sustained and important account of an area that is usually hastily dismissed. Using the resources of contemporary philosophy - notably Deleuze and Lyotard - he manages to bring out the importance of nonsense' - Andrew Benjamin, University of Warwick Why are we, and in particular why are philosophers and linguists, so fascinated with nonsense? Why do Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear appear in so many otherwise dull and dry academic books? This amusing, yet rigorous new book by Jean-Jacques Lecercle shows how the genre of nonsense was constructed and why it has proved so enduring and enlightening for linguistics and philosophy.
Author : George MacDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Scotland
ISBN : UCSC:32106001946232
Author : Tylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00172305
Author : Edward Burnett Tylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Animism
ISBN : UCR:31210001201886
