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Lear-ing

Lear-ing by David Noland, about Lear’s travels in Calabria. Delta-Sky.com

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Word-Twisting versus Nonsense

Word-Twisting versus Nonsense from The Spectator, reprinted in Littell’s Living Age, Fifth Series, Volume LVIII, Apr-May-Jun 1887, pp. 379-81.

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A Review of Illustrated Excursions in Italy

A Review of Illustrated Excursions in Italy(and Fanny Kemble’s A Year of Consolation) from the Quarterly Review, reprinted in Littell’s Living Age, no. 187, 11 December 1847, pp. 481-94.Cornell University Making of America

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Lear necrology

Lear necrology from The New England Magazine. / Volume 6, Issue 33 March 1888, p. 302.

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Why I'll always have a soft spot for the lovely Lady Mondegreen

Why I’ll always have a soft spot for the lovely Lady Mondegreen Homophones upset grammarians. But Mondegreen Rules, OK? They are a source of gaiety in the English language. Falstaff, Alice, Dickens and Edward Lear would be lost without them. … Continue reading

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The Uses of Enchantment

The Uses of Enchantment In ”The Little Mermaid,” Hans Christian Andersen suggests that immortality can serve as a substitute, however unsatisfactory, for human love. The story is clearly an allegory for his own life, for the unloved Andersen, more than … Continue reading

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How Come the Translation of a Limerick Can Have Four Lines (Or Can It?)

How Come the Translation of a Limerick Can Have Four Lines (Or Can It?) by Gideon Toury in: Word, Text, Translation: Liber Amicorum for Peter Newmark,eds Gunilla Anderman & Margaret Rogers. Clevedon etc.: Multilingual Matters, 1999, 163-174.

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Poetics of Children's Literature

Poetics of Children’s Literature by Zohar Shavit The University of Georgia Press, Athens and London, 1986[Full text online.]

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Pinocchio, questo benedetto toscano

Pinocchio, questo benedetto toscano Concepito nell’aprile 1881, il capolavoro di Collodi compie centoventi anni. La Toscana ha perci� indetto il “1° Festival del Teatro di Pinocchio”. Molti spettacoli in tutta Italia.[On the aniversary of Collodi’s conception of Pinocchio, with a … Continue reading

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Granddaughter of Lewis Carroll's Muse Puts Collection Up for Sale

Granddaughter of Lewis Carroll’s Muse Puts Collection Up for Sale The archive includes hundreds of letters, photographs, manuscripts, journals and other pieces of family memorabilia, among the most prominent of which are a group of photographs by Lewis Carroll; two … Continue reading

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