Vol. 20 No. 2 (2017): Anno XX, 2-2017
Dossier - Intorno ad Alice

Poetiche del nonsense: l’esempio del Jabberwocky

Chiara Lepri
Ricercatrice di Storia della pedagogia - Università degli Studi di Roma Tre

Published 2017-12-31

Keywords

  • Lewis Carroll,
  • Nonsense,
  • Word Play

How to Cite

Lepri, C. (2017). Poetiche del nonsense: l’esempio del Jabberwocky. Studi Sulla Formazione/Open Journal of Education, 20(2), 73–81. https://doi.org/10.13128/Studi_Formaz-22171

Abstract

This paper deepens the nonsense poetry theme with a specific reference to Jab-berwocky’s poem, in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass (1871) and the creative use of portmanteau-words. It emerges that nonsense poetry is not just a reverie, but one of the many profiles with which children’s literature is still ex-pressing today with significant results on the ludic and aesthetic level. This con-cerns the pedagogical investigation as it is an effective opportunity to redefine the experience from the unusual, from the possible and – utopically – from the impossible.

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