Literary nonsense (or nonsense literature) is a broad categorization of literature that balances elements that make sense with some that do not, with the effect of subverting language conventions or logical reasoning.[1] Even though the most well-known form of literary nonsense is nonsense verse, the genre is present in many forms of literature.
The effect of nonsense is often caused by an excess of meaning, rather than a lack of it. Its humor is derived from its nonsensical nature, rather than wit or the "joke" of a punch line.[2]
Literarynonsense (or nonsense literature) is a broad categorization of literature that balances elements that make sense with some that do not, with the...
is also occasionally used as a synonym of nonsense. Nonsense verse is the verse form of literarynonsense, a genre that can manifest in many other ways...
illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literarynonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised...
Nonsense verse is a form of nonsense literature usually employing strong prosodic elements like rhythm and rhyme. It is often whimsical and humorous in...
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and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) are classified in the genre of literarynonsense. Carroll came from a family of high-church Anglicans, and developed...
A nonsense song is a type of song written mainly for the purpose of entertainment using nonsense syllables at least in the chorus. Such a song generally...
the verse is simply meant to be nonsense. Thusly, "Hey Diddle Diddle" can be considered a type of literarynonsense. List of nursery rhymes "Roud Folksong...
Books. 1966. ISBN 0-679-72300-5. 1967 Nonsense, illustrations by Greg Irons (a collection of literarynonsense), San Francisco: Stolen Paper Editions...
unique among syndicated multi-panel dailies for its characteristics of literarynonsense, including a near-absence of either straightforward gags or continuous...
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as early as the 1750s, when it appeared in a well-known piece of literarynonsense by English dramatist and actor Samuel Foote in order to test the memory...
of arts criticism, literary criticism or literary studies is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often...
scat singing or scatting is vocal improvisation with wordless vocables, nonsense syllables or without words at all. In scat singing, the singer improvises...
Tolkien's studies of mythology and philology. Peake also wrote poetry and literarynonsense in verse form, short stories for adults and children (Letters from...
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taste'. In John Dryden’s satire “Mac Flecknoe”, the new monarch of literaryNonsense is dismissed to pursue Baroque invention in Some peaceful province...
including nonsense and black humour verses, similar to the Little Willie rhymes by Harry Graham, or, less so, Edward Lear's literary "nonsense verse". Often...
foremost literary and philosophical figures of his time in central Europe. Morgenstern's poetry, much of which was inspired by English literarynonsense, is...
Pantheon Books. 1966. ISBN 0-679-72300-5. Nonsense, illustrations by Greg Irons (a collection of literarynonsense), San Francisco: Stolen Paper Editions...
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (UK: Intellectual Impostures), first published in French in 1997 as Impostures intellectuelles...