"DOES IT BUZZ?": IMAGE AND TEXT IN EDWARD LEAR'S LIMERICKS. Issue 4 (8th November 2017)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- "DOES IT BUZZ?": IMAGE AND TEXT IN EDWARD LEAR'S LIMERICKS. Issue 4 (8th November 2017)
- Main Title:
- "DOES IT BUZZ?": IMAGE AND TEXT IN EDWARD LEAR'S LIMERICKS
- Authors:
- Hassett, Constance W.
- Abstract:
- Abstract : The limericks of Edward Lear (1812–1888) prompted a mid-Victorian craze that flourishes to this day. Gorgeously illustrated new limericks appear in a 2015 issue of Poetry magazine (Madrid), a five-line skewering of Stalin is tucked into a recent New York Times obituary (Grimes). The newly founded Edward Lear Society celebrates at the Knowsley estate, and the keeper of the Edward Lear website adds a new feature on Lear and Comics. The British Academy's Chatterton lecturer attends to Lear's birds, including the parrot that "seized" a man's nose and the raven that "danced a quadrille" (Bevis 39, 41) – Lear's first work, it must be remembered, was the magnificent Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots (1832). Of course he is best known today as a writer of nonsense (Peck 15). The illustrated limerick, his lighthearted venture into a double genre, perennially raises questions among his admirers and scholars about the internal dynamics linking its components. Borrowing from recent discussions of various picture-poem combinations, one might call the illustrated limericks in A Book of Nonsense "picture-limericks" (Dilworth 42), "imagetexts" (Mitchell, Picture Theory 89), or "iconotexts" (Louvel). As the labels all suggest, the core issue is the proximity of two media and whether or how they converge.
- Is Part Of:
- Victorian literature and culture. Volume 45:Issue 4(2017)
- Journal:
- Victorian literature and culture
- Issue:
- Volume 45:Issue 4(2017)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 45, Issue 4 (2017)
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- 45
- Issue:
- 4
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2017-0045-0004-0000
- Page Start:
- 685
- Page End:
- 707
- Publication Date:
- 2017-11-08
- Subjects:
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
Arts, Victorian -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century -- Periodicals
Criticism and interpretation -- Periodicals
Criticism and interpretation -- Periodicals
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- DOI:
- 10.1017/S106015031700016X ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1060-1503
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- Legaldeposit
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