Edward LearPub Date : 2018-11-01DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9780746312216.003.0004
James Williams
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Edward LearPub Date : 2018-11-01DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9780746312216.003.0003
J. Williams
{"title":"Odd Beasts","authors":"J. Williams","doi":"10.3828/liverpool/9780746312216.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9780746312216.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter is concerned with the animals in Lear’s work. It considers the relevance of his background as a zoological illustrator, the relationship between human and animal protagonists in his limericks and drawings, and the attempt in the later poems to imagine entirely animal-populated worlds without human agents. It is concerned with how Lear explores the philosophical problem of imagining forms of social life for non-human creatures without straightforward anthropomorphism. It concludes with an extended close reading of “The Owl and the Pussy-cat”.","PeriodicalId":414348,"journal":{"name":"Edward Lear","volume":"262 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124276056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Edward LearPub Date : 2018-11-01DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9780746312216.003.0002
James Williams
{"title":"Beginnings","authors":"James Williams","doi":"10.3828/liverpool/9780746312216.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9780746312216.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter is concerned with Lear’s beginnings, both the beginnings of his poetry (how he came to write it, why, and for whom) and his interest in beginnings of other kinds: family histories, childhood, children’s language (and the forms of children’s poetry, such as the limerick), and the origins of rhyme. It concludes with an extended close reading of “The Pobble Who Has No Toes”.","PeriodicalId":414348,"journal":{"name":"Edward Lear","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116933422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Edward LearPub Date : 2018-11-01DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9780746312216.003.0006
J. Williams
{"title":"Coda","authors":"J. Williams","doi":"10.3828/liverpool/9780746312216.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9780746312216.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This extremely brief coda draws together the argument of the book by concluding that Lear’s poetry represents a testimony to the ambivalence of emotional life that is both truthful and, for all its nonsense, morally sensible.","PeriodicalId":414348,"journal":{"name":"Edward Lear","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121028742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Edward LearPub Date : 2018-11-01DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9780746312216.003.0005
James Williams
{"title":"The Morbids","authors":"James Williams","doi":"10.3828/liverpool/9780746312216.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9780746312216.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter considers Lear’s work in relation to his life-long struggle with depression, what he called in his diaries “the morbids”. It argues that Lear’s poetry draws on feelings of self-estrangement in characteristic and creative ways to create forms of absurdity central to his nonsense. It examines the prominence in his work of the words “never” and “despair”, and examines a group of works, many of them limericks, that represent suicide and other forms of violence. The chapter concludes with an extended close reading of “The Dong with a Luminous Nose”.","PeriodicalId":414348,"journal":{"name":"Edward Lear","volume":"81 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132531612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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