
Touch Monkeys
All too often Nonsense is relegated to the nursery. Marnie Parsons argues that, rather than being mere child''s play, nonsense is a major force in poetic language. In Touch Monkeys she presents us with an original reading of a much-maligned linguistic pursuit.
Parsons distinguishes between nonsense language and Nonsense, the genre. Her major chapters work towards a vision of nonsense language as p...
All too often Nonsense is relegated to the nursery. Marnie Parsons argues that, rather than being mere child''s play, nonsense is a major force in poetic language. In Touch Monkeys she presents us with an original reading of a much-maligned linguistic pursuit.
Parsons distinguishes between nonsense language and Nonsense, the genre. Her major chapters work towards a vision of nonsense language as p...