Category Archives: Limerick

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

Posted on May 1, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

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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The Learian Limericks Augmented and Revised

Posted on April 12, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

The Learian Limericks Augmented and Revised [I never thought they needed augmentation and/or revision; anyway here is Mr Jeliss’s presentation of his ‘improvements’ — Marco.] Many of the nonsense verses of Edward Lear which take the form now known as … Continue reading →

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Self-similar syncopations

Posted on December 31, 2000 by Marco Graziosi

Self-similar syncopations: Fibonacci, L-systems, limericks and ragtime[This is an alternative (USA) URL for the same article mentioned below: it is really very interesting!]

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Self-similar syncopation

Posted on December 31, 2000 by Marco Graziosi

Self-similar syncopations: Fibonacci, L-systems, limericks and ragtime There are interesting symmetries shared by the limerick and ragtime, which can be observed and heard in their family groups of stressed and unstressed syllables, or beats, and which lie at the heart … Continue reading →

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Why did Lear write 4 {2, 3, 5, 6} line limericks?

Posted on October 27, 2000 by Marco Graziosi

Why did Lear write 4 {2, 3, 5, 6} line limericks? An expert’s answer to a frequently asked question.

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