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literary nonsense: a standalone construct

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a genre that balances a multiplicity of meaning against an absence of meaning, keeping the reader suspended between the two.

In poetics, literary nonsense refers to a genre that balances a multiplicity of meaning against an absence of meaning, keeping the reader suspended between the two. This meaning comes from Tigges (1988) in An Anatomy of Literary Nonsense.[1]

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  1. Tigges, W. (1988). An Anatomy of Literary Nonsense. BRILL. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004484023

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