Course Details
Country:
United Kingdom
Institution:
University of York
Course Title:
The Literature of Nonsense
Course Number:
ENG00062H
Course Description:
In 1900 G.K. Chesterton wrote that, if he were to be asked for the best proof of ‘adventurous growth’ in the nineteenth century, he would reply, ‘with all respect for its portentous science and philosophy, that it was to be found in the rhymes of Mr Edward Lear and the literature of nonsense’ and that ‘this was the literature of the future.’ This module offers an opportunity to address and explore the relationship between writing and nonsense opened up by the innovative writing of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll in the mid-nineteenth century, and continuing in manifold forms in poetry, narrative, film and performance, of the modern period up to the present. We’ll begin with a seminar tracing nonsense back to some of its early practitioners and precursors: the anonymous nonsense of nursery rhymes, the ‘water-poet’ John Taylor, and the Bedlamite mad-talk of Shakespeare. Then we’ll spend some seminars getting
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
Pending For Approval
Course URL:
https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/ENG00062H/latest
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