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Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

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Author Biography

Name: Lewis Carroll
Variant Name: Charles L. Dodgson
Birth Date: January 27, 1832
Death Date: January 14, 1898
Place of Birth: England
Place of Death: England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: cleric, author, mathematician

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Biography of Lewis Carroll
911 words, approx. 3 pages
Lewis Carroll is actually a pseudonym, the pen name taken by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Although best known for his children's books, Dodgson worked professionally as a mathematician, studying particularly recreational logic, determinants, geometry and th...
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Biography of Lewis Carroll
785 words, approx. 2.6 pages
The English cleric Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), who wrote under the name Lewis Carroll, was the author of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. He was also a noted mathematician and photographer. Born on Jan. 27, 1832, Lewis Carroll...
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Biography of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
479 words, approx. 1.6 pages
Charles Dodgson was the oldest of eleven children in a parish priest 's family. Every member of the Dodgson family stammered including Charles, who was also intensely shy, but these impediments did not hinder him from developing a talent for mathematics....
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Jabberwocky Information
3,307 words, approx. 11 pages
"Jabberwocky" is a poem of nonsense verse written by Lewis Carroll, and found as a part of his novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871). It is generally considered to be one of the greatest nonsense poems written in the English...


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Komu Jabberwocky, komu Dinozaury
01/01/2006: 408 words, approx. 1 pages
Jury konkursu ANIMA XII MFF Etiuda & Anima w skladzie Jerzy Kucia (przewodniczacy, Polska), Giannalberto Bendazzi (Wlochy), Wojciech Krzywoblocki (Austria), Liz Blazer (USA), Csaba Varga (Wegry) przyznalo nastepujace nagrody: Grand Prix Zloty Jabberwocky: "Karl i Marilyn" (Karl and Marilyn), rez. Priit Pärn,...
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
'twas Jabberwocky On Word Processor
07/22/1996: 915 words, approx. 3 pages
PETER GRAD The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 07-22-1996 'TWAS JABBERWOCKY ON WORD PROCESSOR By PETER GRAD Date: 07-22-1996, Monday Section: BUSINESS Edition: All Editions -- 3 Star, 2 Star P, 2 Star B, 1 Star Late, 1 Star Early Column: THE COMPUTER TUTOR...
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The New York Observer
Dishy Diane Lane Dresses Down to Catch a Geek
1/22/2008: 886 words, approx. 3 pages
UNTRACEABLE Running Time 101 minutes Directed by Gregory Hoblit Written by Robert Fyvolent & Mark Brinker and Allison Burnett Starring Diane Lane, Colin Hanks and Joseph Cross Starting off the new year with the kind of thriller that keeps you out of dark alleys after...
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The New York Observer
Superb Literary Critic Divided Against Himself
1/22/2006: 1,119 words, approx. 4 pages
To borrow a line from Yellow Submarine, in What Good Are the Arts? the English literary critic John Carey disappears up his own existence: His brilliant, provocative, wrongheaded book ends up erasing itself in contradiction. Mr. Carey, chief critic for London’s Sunday Times, is far...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Karen Alkalay-Gut
1,848 words, approx. 6 pages
In the following excerpt, Alkalay-Gut analyses "Jabberwocky" and finds it structurally and thematically similar to heroic epics such as Beowulf.
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Critical Essay by Raymond J. Rundus
1,422 words, approx. 5 pages
In the following excerpt, Rundus argues that Carroll's "Jabberwocky" has poetic virtues within the traditional context of the English poetic canon.
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Critical Analysis of Symbols and Motifs in "jabberwocky"
650 words, approx. 2 pages
The true theme behind the poem "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carol is masked behind figurative, nonsense language and multiple rhyme schemes, but must not be overlooked.


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