The politics of nonsense: civil unrest, otherness and national mythology in nonsense literature
This study argues that the generative qualities of nonsense literature that foster in the reader a rebellious, anti-authoritarian spirit have been underestimated. At characteristic moments of social unrest the popularity of nonsense literature rises and texts that utilise the mores and tropes of non...
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2007
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