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“That Terrible Bugaboo”: The Role Of Music In Poetry For Children, Michael Heyman
“That Terrible Bugaboo”: The Role Of Music In Poetry For Children, Michael Heyman
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The Decline And Rise Of Literary Nonsense In The Twentieth Century, Michael Heyman
The Decline And Rise Of Literary Nonsense In The Twentieth Century, Michael Heyman
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A New Defense Of Nonsense; Or, Where Then Is His Phallus? And Other Questions Not To Ask, Michael Heyman
A New Defense Of Nonsense; Or, Where Then Is His Phallus? And Other Questions Not To Ask, Michael Heyman
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Victorian literary nonsense has mostly elicited two critical responses since Edward Lear published A Book of Nonsense in 1846. On one side we find the critics who argue for the "non-sensicality" of the genre. Partly as a backlash against those who see satire or symbolism in Lear's work, this group sided with Lear in proclaiming the genre "'Nonsense,' pure and absolute" (Lear, More Nonsense iv). This approach raised a certain fear among many critics in the second half of the twentieth century: if nonsense were truly "non-sense," it would preclude further critical debate.1 Thus the sense school of criticism was …