Facts about Literary Nonsense in Lewis Carroll

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   Carroll's literary nonsense in works like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland draws heavily on mathematical and logical paradoxes, reflecting his professional background as a mathematics lecturer at Oxford.

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   Carroll's literary nonsense frequently employs characters who speak in circular reasoning, as when the Red Queen defines words to mean whatever she chooses.

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   In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Carroll constructs nonsense through systematic violations of conversational logic, such as characters treating metaphors as literal truths.

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   The logical absurdity central to literary nonsense in Lewis Carroll often takes the form of characters applying rigid, pedantic rules to situations where they make no sense, as seen in the Mad Hatter's tea party.

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   Carroll's nonsense poetry 'Jabberwocky,' published in Through the Looking-Glass, features invented words like 'brillig' and 'slithy' that blend two meanings, a technique he called portmanteau words.

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