Nonsense Literature Bibliography

Baacke, Dieter. “Spiele jenseits der Grenze. Zur Phänomenologie und Theorie des Nonsens.” Deutsche Unsinnspoesie. Ed. Klaus Peter Dencker. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1978.

Baier, A.C. “Nonsense.” Macmillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 1967.

Blumenfeld, Walter. Sinn und Unsinn. Munich: Ernst Reinhard, 1933.

Chaouli, Michel. “Die ‘Verwandtschaftstafeln der Buchstaben’ und das Produktion von Sinn und Unsinn in der Literatur.” In: ‘Fülle der Combination’: Literaturforschung und Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Ed. Bernhard J. Dotzler and Sigrid Weigel. München: Fink, 2005.

Conley, Tim. "‘Oh Me None Onsens!’: Finnegan's Wake and the Negation of Meaning." James Joyce Quarterly 39.2 (Winter 2002): 233–49.

Deleuze, Gilles. The Logic of Sense. Trans. Mark Lester and Charles Stivale. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.

Dolitsky, Marlene. “The Translation of Nonsense.” Babel 34.2 (1988): 80-89.

-----. Under the Tumtum Tree: From Nonsense to Sense. Studies in Non-automatic Comprehension. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins, 1984.

Flescher, Jacqueline. “The Language of Nonsense in Alice.” Yale French Studies 43 (1969/70): 128-44.

Forster, Leonard. Poetry of Significant Nonsense. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962.

Fowler, Roger. “On the interpretation of ‘nonsense strings.’ ” Journal of Linguistics 5 (1969): 75-83.

Heyman, Michael Benjamin. Isles of Boshen: Edward Lear’s Literary Nonsense in Context. Diss. University of Glasgow, 1999.

Holquist, Michael. “What is a Boojum? Nonsense and Modernism.” Yale French Studies 43 (1969/70): 145-164.

Kemeny, Tomasso. “Il motto di spirit e il nonsense.” La comunicazione spiritosa. Florence: Sansoni, 1982. 217-37.

Köhler, Peter. Nonsens. Theorie und Geschichte der literarischen Gattung. Heidelberg: Carl Winter 1989.

Lang, Peter Christian. Literarischer Unsinn im späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert: systematische Begründung und historische Rekonstruktion. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1982.

Lecercle, Jacques. Philosophy of Nonsense: The Intuitions of Victorian Nonsense Literature. London: Routledge, 1994.
 

-----. Philosophy through the Looking-Glass: Language, Nonsense, and Desire. La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1985.

-----. “ ‘The boy stood on the burning deck’: Poetique du nonsense.” Etudes Anglaises 57.1 (2004): 7-31.

Liede, Alfred. Dichtung als Spiel: Studien zur Unsinnspoesie an den Grenzen der Sprache. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1963.

Menninghaus, Winfried. In Praise of Nonsense: Kant and Bluebeard. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.

Orero, Pilar. The Problem of Translating “Jabberwocky”: The Nonsense Literature of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear and Their Spanish Translators. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellon Press, 2007.

Parsons, Marnie. Touch Monkeys: Nonsense Strategies for Reading Twentieth-Century Poetry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.

Petzold, Dieter. Formen und Funktionen der englischen Nonsense-Dichtung im 19. Jahrhundert. Nürnberg: Verlag Hans Carl, 1972.

Reichert, Klaus. Lewis Carroll: Studien zum litarischen Unsinn. Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag, 1974.

Reike, Alison. The Senses of Nonsense. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992.

Reinhart, Tanya. “Patterns, Intuitions, and the Sense of Nonsense: An Analysis of Cummings’ ‘anyone lived in a pretty how town.’ ” PTL: A Journal for Descriptive Poetics and Theory 1 (1976): 85-103.

Rose, Adam. “Lewis Carroll’s ‘Jabberwocky’: Non-sense not Nonsense.” Language and Literature 4.1 (1995): 1-13.

Rother, James. “Modernism and the Nonsense Style.” Contemporary Literature 15 (1974): 187-202.

Schuhmann, Klaus. “ ‘Wir glätten weinend unsre Bügelfalten’: Galgendichters Widerhall bei Expressionisten und Dadaisten.” Neue Deutsche Literature 45.3 (1997): 67-76.

Sewell, Elizabeth. The Field of Nonsense. London: Chatto & Windus, 1952.

-----. “ ‘In the Midst of his Laughter and Glee’: Nonsense and Nothingness in Lewis Carroll.” Soundings 82 (1999): 541-71.

Shires, Linda M. “Fantasy, Nonsense, Parody, and the Status of the Real: The Example of Carroll,” Victorian Poetry 26.3 (1988): 267-283.

Stemmler, Theo and Stefan Horlacher. Sinn im Unsinn: Über Unsinnsdichtung vom Mittelalter bis zum 20. Jahrhundert: 9. Kolloquium der Forschungsstelle für Europäische Lyrik. 1997

Stewart, Susan, Nonsense. Aspects of Intertextuality in Folklore and Literature. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.

Tigges, Wim. An Anatomy of Literary Nonsense. Rodopi: Amsterdam, 1988.

-----, ed. Explorations in the Field of Nonsense. Rodopi: Amsterdam, 1987.