Author(s): Vasconcelos, Filomena
Date: 1998
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10216/8959
Origin: Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
Subject(s): Absurdo; Humor; Literatura inglesa - Estudos críticos
Author(s): Vasconcelos, Filomena
Date: 1998
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10216/8959
Origin: Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
Subject(s): Absurdo; Humor; Literatura inglesa - Estudos críticos
The study of literary nonsense, as far as it can be reflected in Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, finds important counterpoints in the questions raised by the theatre of the absurd, as expressed in Beckett's plays. Therefore, the relationship between nonsense narrative writing and the theatre of the absurd is analysed both in terms of literary theory and literary history; thereby the main characteristics of evolution in the thought and use of poetical language are shown, from fln-de siècle post romantic poetics to a wide range of tendencies in twentieth century art.