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“BETWEEN PETERBOROUGH AND PENTECOST”
NONSENSE LITERATURE ACROSS SPACE AND TIME
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An international and interdisciplinary conference
The University of Warwick
Humanities Building
12-13 May 2006
PROGRAMME
Plenary Speakers:
Michelangelo ZACCARELLO (Università di Verona): Off the Paths of Common Sense: from the Frottola to the per motti and alla burchia Poetic Styles
Barbara C. BOWEN (Vanderbilt University): François's Fractured
French: The Language of Nonsense in Rabelais
Hilary GATTI (Università di Roma "La Sapienza"): The Idea of Liberty and the Language of Nonsense in King Lear
Jean-Jacques LECERCLE (Université Paris X-Nanterre): Nonsense and Politics
Shorter papers on:
Dante; Burchiello and Alberti; Dealing with Nonsense in Translation; Vaclav Havel; Bruscambille; Leporeo; Kafka; Asahara Rokurô; Fosco Maraini; Sergio Tofano; "Nonsense and Other Senses" (Edward Lear); Finnish Nonsense Limerick; Apollinaire; Dada; Fritz Mauthner and German Nonsense Poetry; Kurt Schwitters; Michael Ende; The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases
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Conference organised by Carlo Caruso (C.Caruso@warwick.ac.uk)
and Elisabetta Tarantino (Elisabetta.Tarantino@warwick.ac.uk)
with Ingrid De Smet and Helmut Schmitz
For further information and a registration form, please see
www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/italian/news/nonsense
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