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“Dr. Seuss of Beasts and Men: the Cartoonist’s Experience and the Illustrated Tales of the 1930–1950s [PDF]

open access: yesЛитература двух Америк, 2023
The paper deals with the first decades in the work of Dr. Seuss (the pseudonym of Theodor Geisel, 1904–1991), one of the most prominent children’s authors of the 20th century.
Nina A. Moroz
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Mening med vrøvlet

open access: yesBarnboken: Tidskrift för Barnlitteraturforskning, 2021
Making Sense of Nonsense: Readings of Children’s Poetry as Play and Creative Thinking Abstract: Nonsense and meaning are not necessarily conflicting concepts, but can be conceived of as a hendiadys, that is, not opposites, the one or the other, but as
Claus K. Madsen, Lea Allouche
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A preliminary reading of Sean Bonney’s ‘What Teargas is For’

open access: yesJournal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, 2022
This essay supplements Sean Bonney’s note-taking and note-playing practice by discussing the role of mysticism in his later work, roughly ranging from 2011 to 2019, in order to offer a preliminary reading of the poem ‘What Teargas is For’.
Robert Kiely
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Nonsense and the Freedom of Speech: What Meaning Means for the First Amendment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
A great deal of everyday expression is, strictly speaking, nonsense. But courts and scholars have done little to consider whether or why such meaningless speech, like nonrepresentational art, falls within “the freedom of speech.” If, as many suggest ...
Hollander, Anna   +2 more
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How to (mis)use language: humor, creativity and lexical creation in Rikki Ducornet’s The Stain, The Fountains of Neptune and Phosphor in Dreamland

open access: yesLexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2021
This article questions the link between creativity, lexical creation and humor in literary texts, more specifically in three of Rikki Ducornet’s novels: The Stain, The Fountains of Neptune and Phosphor in Dreamland.
Elodie Trolé
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“E is for Ernest who choked on a peach”

open access: yesThe 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

open access: yeseLife, 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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Two Languages, Number One Authors: The Influence of Bilingual Upbringing on the Literary Accomplishments of Roald Dahl and Dr. Seuss

open access: yesELOPE, 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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Nonsense on Stilts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Goverment and press have joined forces in a campaign to abandon the human rights act- and maybe membership of the ...
Petley, J
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