Skip to content
Keywords
Home
  • African American Studies
  • American Cultural Studies
  • Asian American Studies
  • Children's Literature
  • Comics Studies
  • Disability Studies
  • Environmental Studies
  • Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Health Humanities
  • Latina/o Studies
  • Media Studies
  • Critical Race Theory
  • Keywords (continued)
  • Pandemic
  • What happened on January 6, 2021?

Keywords for Children's Literature

Buy this book
  1. Home
  2. Essays
  3. Nonsense
Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Twitter Share this page on Google Plus Email this page
Buy this book
  • Home
  • Introduction
    • African American, Michelle Martin
    • Censorship, David Booth
    • Character, Jay Mechling
    • Class, Elizabeth Bullen
    • Education, Elisabeth Rose Gruner
    • Empire, Stephen Slemon and Jo-Ann Wallace
    • Golden Age, Angela Sorby
    • Ideology, Elizabeth Parsons
    • Image, Nathalie op de Beeck
    • Intention, Philip Pullman
    • Latino/a, Phillip Serrato
    • Literacy, Lissa Paul
    • Marketing, June Cummins
    • Popular, Julie A. S. Cassidy
    • Reading, Margaret Meek Spencer
    • Science Fiction, A. Waller Hastings
    • Theory, David Rudd
    • Tomboy, Michelle Ann Abate
    • Young Adult, Lee A. Talley
    • Adult, Victoria Ford Smith
    • Aesthetics, Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.
    • Affect, Louise Joy
    • Agency, Nina Christensen
    • Animal, Colleen Glenney Boggs
    • Archive, Lissa Paul
    • Audience, Beverly Lyon Clark
    • Authenticity, Sarah Park Dahlen
    • Body, Kelly Hager
    • Book, Patricia Crain
    • Boyhood, Eric L. Tribunella
    • Childhood, Karen Sánchez-Eppler
    • Children's Literature, Peter Hunt
    • Classic, Kenneth Kidd
    • Crossover Literature, Sandra L. Beckett
    • Culture, Richard Flynn
    • Diaspora, Michelle Martin and B. J. McDaniel
    • Didactic, Clémentine Beauvais
    • Disability, Nicole Markotić
    • Diversity, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
    • Domestic, Claudia Nelson
    • Fairy Tale / Märchen, Vanessa Joosen
    • Family, Elisabeth (Lies) Wesseling
    • Fantasy, Deirdre Baker
    • Gender, Elizabeth Marshall
    • Genre, Karin E. Westman
    • Girlhood, Jacqueline Reid-Walsh
    • Graphic Novel, Charles Hatfield
    • Home, Mavis Reimer
    • Identity, Karen Coats
    • Indigenous, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair
    • Innocence, Marah Gubar
    • Intermedial, Ute Dettmar and Anna Stemmann
    • Irony, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
    • Liminality, Michael Joseph
    • Media, Naomi Hamer
    • Modernism, Kimberley Reynolds
    • Multicultural, Debra Dudek
    • Nature, Peter Hollindale
    • Nonsense, Michael Heyman and Kevin Shortsleeve
    • Nostalgia, Boel Westin
    • Performance, Robin Bernstein
    • Picture Book, William Moebius
    • Play, Stine Liv Johansen
    • Poetry, JonArno Lawson
    • Postcolonial, Clare Bradford
    • Posthuman, Zoe Jaques
    • Postmodernism, Philip Nel
    • Queer, Kerry Mallan
    • Race, Katharine Capshaw
    • Realism, Cathryn M. Mercier
    • Size, Lynne Vallone
    • Story, Hugh Crago
    • Taboo, Åse Marie Ommundsen
    • Trans, Derritt Mason
    • Translation, Emer O’Sullivan
    • Transnational, Evelyn Arizpe
    • Trauma, Lydia Kokkola
    • Voice, Mike Cadden
    • Adult, Victoria Ford Smith
    • Aesthetics, Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.
    • Affect, Louise Joy
    • African American, Michelle Martin
    • Agency, Nina Christensen
    • Animal, Colleen Glenney Boggs
    • Archive, Lissa Paul
    • Audience, Beverly Lyon Clark
    • Authenticity, Sarah Park Dahlen
    • Body, Kelly Hager
    • Book, Patricia Crain
    • Boyhood, Eric L. Tribunella
    • Censorship, David Booth
    • Character, Jay Mechling
    • Childhood, Karen Sánchez-Eppler
    • Children's Literature, Peter Hunt
    • Class, Elizabeth Bullen
    • Classic, Kenneth Kidd
    • Crossover Literature, Sandra L. Beckett
    • Culture, Richard Flynn
    • Diaspora, Michelle Martin and B. J. McDaniel
    • Didactic, Clémentine Beauvais
    • Disability, Nicole Markotić
    • Diversity, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
    • Domestic, Claudia Nelson
    • Education, Elisabeth Rose Gruner
    • Empire, Stephen Slemon and Jo-Ann Wallace
    • Fairy Tale / Märchen, Vanessa Joosen
    • Family, Elisabeth (Lies) Wesseling
    • Fantasy, Deirdre Baker
    • Gender, Elizabeth Marshall
    • Genre, Karin E. Westman
    • Girlhood, Jacqueline Reid-Walsh
    • Golden Age, Angela Sorby
    • Graphic Novel, Charles Hatfield
    • Home, Mavis Reimer
    • Identity, Karen Coats
    • Ideology, Elizabeth Parsons
    • Image, Nathalie op de Beeck
    • Indigenous, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair
    • Innocence, Marah Gubar
    • Intention, Philip Pullman
    • Intermedial, Ute Dettmar and Anna Stemmann
    • Irony, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
    • Latino/a, Phillip Serrato
    • Liminality, Michael Joseph
    • Literacy, Lissa Paul
    • Marketing, June Cummins
    • Media, Naomi Hamer
    • Modernism, Kimberley Reynolds
    • Multicultural, Debra Dudek
    • Nature, Peter Hollindale
    • Nonsense, Michael Heyman and Kevin Shortsleeve
    • Nostalgia, Boel Westin
    • Performance, Robin Bernstein
    • Picture Book, William Moebius
    • Play, Stine Liv Johansen
    • Poetry, JonArno Lawson
    • Popular, Julie A. S. Cassidy
    • Postcolonial, Clare Bradford
    • Posthuman, Zoe Jaques
    • Postmodernism, Philip Nel
    • Queer, Kerry Mallan
    • Race, Katharine Capshaw
    • Reading, Margaret Meek Spencer
    • Realism, Cathryn M. Mercier
    • Science Fiction, A. Waller Hastings
    • Size, Lynne Vallone
    • Story, Hugh Crago
    • Taboo, Åse Marie Ommundsen
    • Theory, David Rudd
    • Tomboy, Michelle Ann Abate
    • Trans, Derritt Mason
    • Translation, Emer O’Sullivan
    • Transnational, Evelyn Arizpe
    • Trauma, Lydia Kokkola
    • Voice, Mike Cadden
    • Young Adult, Lee A. Talley
  • Works Cited
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
    • Note on Classroom Use
    • Syllabi & Assignments

Nonsense

book Keywords for Children's Literature
by Michael Heyman and Kevin Shortsleeve
What is Nonsense? I know when you do not ask me.

This essay may be found on page 133 of the printed volume.

Works Cited

Permanent Link to this Essay

  • About this Site
  • Rights
  • Accessibility
NYU Press
outline     ()       x x