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Nonsense : Aspects of Intertextuality in Folklore and Literature
Nonsense Aspects of Intertextuality in Folklore and Literature
Author: Susan A. Stewart
From a "comic strip" papyrus dating from Egypt's New Kingdom to the works of Stein, Joyce, and Barth, "nonsense" texts reveal a set of possibilities as rich and complex as the more conventional system of "making sense" from which they are derived. Examining palindromes, children's rhymes, puns, anagrams, code languages, and other texts, Susan St...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801839818
ISBN-10: 0801839815
Publication Date: 12/1/1989
Pages: 240
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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