Mad puns and French poets: visual-verbal punning and 'l'art des fous' in Apollinaire's Calligrammes

This article examines the use of visual-verbal punning structures in Guillaume Apollinaire's calligrammes, or visual poems. It considers how Apollinaire's mobilization of these punning structures may have emerged out of an interest in ‘l'art des fous’ (art and creative writing by the...

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Main Author: Shingler, Katherine
Format: Article
Published: Edinburgh University Press 2014
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33897/