Category Archives: General

Indian Nonsense: Anushka Ravishankar

Posted on November 7, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

Michael Heyman, whose not-to-be-missed thesis on Edward Lear, Isles of Boshen, has been online for some time, has an article on Anushka Ravishankar’s Indian Nonsense in the November issue of The Horn Book, a publication about books for children and … Continue reading →

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A Geography of the Early Limerick

Posted on August 23, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

Ever since I heard of Google Earth I realised it would be very useful for limerick lovers, but I was too lazy to try and find out how to create interactive maps until I found this post at the Stoa … Continue reading →

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Changing again

Posted on August 22, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

I’ve started changing the page layout again, so some parts of the site might not work correctly for some time. Be patient.

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Jungle-Jangle

Posted on June 27, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

The Peter Newell section of nonsenselit.org now has a full-size, perfect copy of Peter Newell’s Jungle-Jangle. Thanks to Bob & Ellen Watters, who kindly contacted me and scanned the book.

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Meta: Site Update

Posted on April 24, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

I am going to try and upgrade the blog from WordPress 1.5 to 2.0.2 later today, so there might be problems.

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Where did Nonsense go?

Posted on March 27, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

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 … Continue reading →

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Self-Reference in Lear s Limericks

Posted on March 27, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

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 … Continue reading →

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The Laughable Looloos

Posted on February 20, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

Helen Stilwell’s Laughable Looloos 1906 series is now available in full colour at Nonsense in the Early Comics.

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A Limerick Alphabet by Edmund Dulac

Posted on January 17, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

Arthur Deex has acquired a very nice copy of a rare book of limericks and has kindly chosen to share it: Lyrics Pathetic and Humorous from A to Z by Edmund Dulac (1882-1953) is a delightful Alphabet Book of 24 … Continue reading →

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Meta: nonsenselit.org hacked

Posted on November 17, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

I’m sorry to say that the main page of nonsenselit.org has been hacked. This has already happened a couple of times since last summer, but I’m not going to repair it this time as I no longer trust PostNuke enough: … Continue reading →

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