Publication: Ambivalent texts, the borderline, and the sense of nonsense in Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky".
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Templeton, Michael
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Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones
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https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.362231
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Taking Carroll‘s ―Jabberwocky‖ as emblematic of a text historically enjoyed by both children and adults, this article
seeks to place the text in what Kristeva defines as the borderline between language and subjectivity to theorize a
realm in which ambivale
nt texts emerge as such. The fact that children‘s literature remains largely trapped in the
literary
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didactic split in which these texts are understood as either learning materials and primers for literacy, or as
examples of poetic or historical modernist
discourse. This article situates Carroll‘s text in the theories of language,
subjectivity, and clinical discourse toward a more complex reading of a children‘s poem, one that finds a point of
intersection between the adult and the child reader.
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