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.

Bibliography for Abram Tertz/Andrei Sinyavsky

Compiled during my own work on Tertz's Fantastic Stories (here and a non-academic review here).
This was some of the first major academic research I did, and Tertz (along with Gogol) was one of the primary reasons I decided to learn Russian, so he has a special place in my heart.

Monographs
Dalton, Margaret. Andrei Siniavsky and Julii Daniel', Two Soviet 'Heretical' Writers. Würzberg: Jal, 1973.

Kolonosky, Walter. Literary Insinuations: Sorting out Sinyavsky’s Irreverence. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003.

Lourie, Richard. Letters to the Future: An Approach to Sinyavsky-Tertz. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1975.

Nepomnyashchy, Catharine Theimer. Abram Tertz and the Poetics of Crime. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995.

Fantastic Stories
Artz, Martine. “Interpretations of Pchenc, One of the Fantastic Stories of Andrej Sinjavskij/Abram Terc.” Dutch Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava, August 30-September 9, 1993. Ed. Willem G Weststeijn. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994. 13-22.

Carrington, Ildikó de Papp. “Demons, Doubles, and Dinosaurs: Life before Man, The Origin of Consciousness, and 'The Icicle'.” Essays on Canadian Writing 33 (1986): 68-88.

Cheaure, Elisabeth. Abram Terc (Andrej Sinjavskij): vier Aufsätze zu seinen “Phantastischen Erzählungen.” Heidelberg: Winter, 1980.

Cornwell, Neil. “At the Circus with Olesha and Siniavskii.” Slavonic and East European Review 71.1 (1993): 1-13.

Durkin, Andrew R. “Narrator, Metaphor, and Theme in Sinjavskij's Fantastic Tales.” Slavic and East European Journal 24 (1980): 133-144.

Haber, Erika. “In Search of the Fantastic in Tertz's Fantastic Realism.” Slavic and East European Journal 42.2 (1998): 254-267.

---. “The Fantastic Form of Terc's Early Fiction.” Russian, Croatian and Serbian, Czech and Slovak, Polish Literature 47.2 (2000): 135-158.

Kolonosky, Walter. “Inherent and Ulterior Design in Sinjavskij's "Pxenc".” Slavic and East European Journal 26.3 (1982): 329-337.

Morsberger, Grace Anne. “'The Icicle' as Allegory.” Odyssey: A Journal of the Humanities 4.2 (1981): 15-18.

Nepomnyashchy, Catharine Theimer. “Andrei Sinyavsky's 'You and I': A Modern Day Fantastic Tale.” Ulbandus Review 2.2 (1982): 209-230.

Peterson, Ronald E. “The Writer as Alien in Sinjavskij's 'Pkhens'.” Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 12 (1983): 47-53.

Other
Airaudi, Jesse T. “Fantasia for Sewercovers and Drainpipes: T.S. Eliot, Abram Tertz, and the Surreal Quest for pravda.” Modes of the Fantastic Selected Essays from the Twelfth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Ed. Robert A Latham. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995. 21-27.

Artz, Martine. Fantasy and Reality in Abram Terc's Early Prose: A Documentary-Narratological Study. Diss. University of Amsterdam, 2005.

Aucouturier, Michael. “Writer and Text in the Works of Abram Terc (An Ontology of Writing and a Poetics of Prose).” Trans. Alexandre Guerard. Fiction and Drama in Eastern and Southeastern Europe: Evolution and Experiment in the Postwar Period. Ed. Henrik Birnbaum & Thomas Eekman. Columbus, OH: Slavica, 1980. 1-10.

Brown, Deming. “The Art of Andrei Siniavsky..” Slavic Review 29.4 (1970): 663-681.

Clowes, Edith W. “Kafka and Russian Experimental Fiction in the Thaw, 1956-1965.” Modern Language Review 89.1 (1994): 149-165.

Cohen, Gordon, and Donald Fanger. “Abram Tertz: Dissidence, Diffidence, and Russian Literary Tradition.” Soviet Society and Culture: Essays in Honor of Vera S. Dunham. Ed. Terry L. Thompson and Richard Sheldon. Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1988. 162-77.

Dunham, Vera S. “Serenity: A Note on Sinyavsky’s Style.” The Third Wave: Russian Literature in Emigration. Ed. Olga Matich and Michael Heim. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1984. 110-17.

Fanger, Donald. “Conflicting Imperatives in the Model of the Russian Writer: The Case of Tertz/Sinyavsky.” Literature and History: Theoretical Problems and Russian Case Studies. Ed. Gary Saul Morson. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986. 111-24.

Fenander, Sara. “Author and Autocrat: Tertz's Stalin and the Ruse of Charisma.” Russian Review 58.2 (1999): 286-297.

Gifford, Henry. “Andrey Sinyavsky: The Voice and the Chorus.” Encounter 42.2 (1974): 34-39.

Holmgren, Beth C. “First-Person Liberties: The persona in the work of Witold Gombrowicz and Abram Terc.” Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1987.

---. “The Transfiguring of Context in the Work of Abram Terts.” Slavic Review: American Quarterly of Soviet and East European Studies 50.4 (1991): 965-977.

Karpov, Anatolii S. “Le Realisme fantastique dans les premiers ecrits en prose d'Abram Terz.” Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue Canadienne des Slavistes 43.2-3 (2001): 227-234.

Kolonosky, Walter. “Andrei Sinyavsky: Puzzle Maker.” Slavic and East European Journal 42.3 (1998): 385-388.

McLean, Hugh. “Abram Tertz and His Translators.” Slavic and East European Journal 8.4 (1964): 434-40.

Nussbaum, Andrew J. “Literary Selves: The Tertz-Sinyavsky Dialogue.” Autobiographical Statements in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature. Ed. Jane Gary Harris. Princton: Princeton University Press, 1990. 238-59.

Sinyavsky, Andrei. “'I' and 'They': An Essay on Extreme Forms of Communication under Conditions of Human Isolation.” Survey: A Journal of East & West Studies 100-101 (1977): 278-287.

Skillen, Daphne Helen. The Prose Fiction of Andrej Sinjavskij. M.A. thesis, University of Colorado, 1976.

Szarycz, Ireneusz. “Sinyavsky and Vonnegut: The Themes of Displacement and Alienation.” Twentieth-Century Russian Literature: Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies. Ed. Karen L. Ryan & Barry P. Scherr. New York: Macmillan, 2000. 164-179.

Woronzoff, Alexander. “The Writer as Artist and Critic: The Case of Andrej Sinjavskij.” Russian Language Journal 37 (1983): 139-45.

Wozniak, Anna. “Skomorosheskii glum v proze Abrama Tertsa.” Roczniki Humanistyczne: Annales de Lettres et Sciences Humaines/Annals of Arts 50.7 (2002): 53-71.