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Un homenaje fallido a Carroll: La torre sin fin, de Silvina Ocampo

Confluenze, 2015
The children’s novel La torre sin fin, by Silvina Ocampo, first published in Madrid in 1986 (Alfaguara) and then published posthumously in 2007 in Argentina (Sudamericana), is one of the stories of the author in which is more obvious than in any other ...
Natalia Biancotto
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“E is for Ernest who choked on a peach”

The European Journal of Humour Research, 2022
In Edward Gorey’s numerous scenes of breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and afternoon teas, food and drink often feature with more or less prominence and are sometimes even found in the titles of his books, such as in The Fatal Lozenge (1960) or The Unknown ...
Nikola Novaković
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Nonsense mRNA suppression via nonstop decay

eLife, 2018
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay is the process by which mRNAs bearing premature stop codons are recognized and cleared from the cell. While considerable information has accumulated regarding recognition of the premature stop codon, less is known about the ...
Joshua A Arribere, Andrew Z Fire
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Interpretation of Nonsense as a Method of Children Imagination Development (as exemplified in Carroll L. «Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There») [PDF]

Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2020
The article enlightens the probem of nonsense and its role in the development of creative thinking and fantasy, and the way how the interpretation of nonsense affects children imagination.
Larisa V. Kalashnikova
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The Metaphysical Subject and Logical Space: Solipsism and Singularity in the Tractatus

Open Philosophy, 2018
This essay presents a heterodox reading of the issue of solipsism in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (TLP), out of which the whole of the TLP can be re-read.
Allen M. Curtis
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Making sense of N/nonsense in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman, a Wittgensteinian perspective

Corela, 2012
This paper examines the question of nonsense through a series of examples taken from Flann O’Brien’s satirical novels. Starting from Wittgenstein’s claim in the Tractatus that any reflexive discourse on language is itself nonsensical and that nonsense ...
Flore Coulouma
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Two Languages, Number One Authors: The Influence of Bilingual Upbringing on the Literary Accomplishments of Roald Dahl and Dr. Seuss

ELOPE, 2008
This paper focuses on the nature and impact of bilingual upbringing on cognitive development, thought and cultural experience of two bestselling authors, Roald Dahl and Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss).
Ivana Marinić, Željka Nemet
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Making (Non)Sense of the Sea, Sand and Self in The Boy in the Bush by D.H. Lawrence and M.L. Skinner

Études Lawrenciennes, 2023
In this paper, I discuss how Lewis Carroll’s Alice narratives, and in particular his so-called nonsense poem “The Walrus and the Carpenter” (from Through the Looking-Glass, 1871), can read as subtexts to the opening chapters of The Boy in the Bush by D.H.
Shirley Bricout
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Sous l’empire de la folie : Moby-Dick, Shakespeare & compagnie

Transatlantica, 2010
This article aims at translating Moby-Dick back into Shakespeare’s ornate lingo, and back again into a Swiftian or Sternian brand of “jabberwocky,” in order to expose the sheer nonsense that underlies lame attempts at standing for the Body Politic called
Michel Imbert
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Between the Joys of Nonsense and the Excess of the Other: Foodways in Laura E. Richards’s Children’s Poems

European Journal of American Studies
Food and eating are recurring themes throughout Laura Richards’s children’s poems. This essay examines how several of Richards’s poems bring together food and education, specifically in conjunction with excess, grotesquerie, and otherness.
Antonia Purk
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