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Category Archives: Lewis Carroll
Introduction to Through the Looking-Glass
Introduction to Through the Looking-Glass By Zadie Smith[From the rising star of British fiction…]BloomsburyMagazine.com – Ezine
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The Phonosemantics of Nasal-Stop Clusters
The Phonosemantics of Nasal-Stop Clusters by Ralph Emerson The humorousness of nasal-stops also makes them one of the secrets of nonsense poets. Dr. Seuss’s books have dozens of nasal-stop coinages, from the Grinch to the Rink-Rinker-Fink. The flora and fauna … Continue reading
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Was Lewis Carroll's interest in Alice sinister?
Was Lewis Carroll’s interest in Alice sinister? It is true that the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, otherwise known as Lewis Carroll, author of the inimitable classics Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass, liked little girls. Or, as … Continue reading
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The top ten votes
The top ten votes 1 The Owl and the Pussy-Cat Edward Lear 2 Matilda Hilaire Belloc 3 Don�t Michael Rosen 4 Jabberwocky Lewis CarrollThe Times
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Inventing Wonderland by Jackie Wullschlager
Biography choice: Inventing Wonderland by Jackie Wullschlager Edward Lear lived a solitary life, preferring children to adults as an escape from his homosexuality. Lear�s attitude to children is presented as being the kindest, his nonsense limericks having none of the … Continue reading
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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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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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Annotated Alice: the definitive edition
The Annotated Alice: the definitive edition Lewis Carroll, with an introduction by Martin Gardner Allen Lane, The Penguin PressThe problem is that Gardner’s own analysis of Carroll proceeds via a false syllogism (a misapplication of logic that doubtless his subject … Continue reading
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