“A Melancholy Meditation on the False Millennium”: Time, nonsense, and humour in the works of Edward Gorey
Edward Gorey’s works are commonly set within a hybrid Victorian/ Edwardian period and often elicit further confusion by containing comically anachronistic details and a nonsensical approach to time, all of which leads to Gorey’s characteristic “bewildering temporality” (Shortsleeve 2018: 104). As th...
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Juraj Dobrila University of Pula
2022-01-01
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| Online Access: | https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/415011 |