An Anatomy of Literary Nonsense

absence of meaning absurd Alice books AW and TLG Byrom calls Cammaerts 1925 Carroll and Lear Carroll's nonsense Carrollian chapter characteristic of nonsense Christian Morgenstern comic created Dada defines nonsense definition of nonsense discussed Edward Lear elements emotional fact fantasy fiction Galgenlieder genre Gorey grotesque Hildebrandt 1962 humour ibid incongruity Jabberwocky joke Kretschmer 1983 Lear and Carroll Lear's limericks Lear's nonsense Lewis Carroll Liede light verse limericks linguistic literary nonsense logic Marx Brothers metafiction metaphor Morgenstern motifs neologism nonsense devices nonsense literature nonsense poetry nonsense verse nonsense writers Nöth novel numbers nursery rhyme parody Petzold phenomenon playful poem portmanteau presented puns quoted reader reality refers regards Reichert satire Schöne sense Sewell shaggy dog story simultaneity Snark Spiel Stewart story suggested surrealism surrealist T.S. Eliot texts themes Third Policeman Tigges tion type of literature type of nonsense Unsinn verbal Victorian wordplay words