ENGLISH 318 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Julia Kristeva, Edward Lear, Neologism

• School: U of M
• Department: English Language And Literature
• Course: ENGLISH 318
• Professor: Lisa Makman

Document Summary

Edward lear: a book of nonsense poetry. The semioic: julia kristeva, the term describes a disrupive revoluionary aspect of poeic language, an emoional ield of psyche, linked to insinct and connected with early infancy (the pre-oedipal in psycho-analyic theory) Nonsense: invented by lear, developed by carrol, mocks social convenions and insituions, subverts linguisic convenion, opposed to logic/ raionality of adult world. Bildungsroman: novel of educaion/ development, tracks the psychological, spiritual, intellectual and ethical development of a rebellious youth into maturity, usually stages a conlict between the protagonist and society and a subsequent reconciliaion.