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Blending Logic and Imagination: The Puzzle Art of Lewis Carroll

Autor Marcel Danesi
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 mar 2020
Lewis Carroll is known mainly for his children's novels and poems. Throughout these ingenious works he interspersed riddles, math and logic games, and a host of other puzzles, reflecting his interest in the ludic (playful) imagination. It is not widely known that Carroll is one of the greatest puzzle makers of history, composing them not only for children, but also for adults in magazines, periodicals, and books. One of his puzzle masterpieces is the so-called doublet puzzle, which he wrote for Vanity Fair, and is still one of the most loved wordplay games to this day. There have been various anthologies of Carroll's puzzles in recent decades, but virtually no study of their importance as part of a unique "puzzle art" exists. This book aims to examine this art as it manifests itself in Carroll's many puzzle creations, both within his novels, and in his many other writings. It dissects the blend of logic and imagination that he employs in creating riddles, anagrams, acrostics, math puzzles, logic games, and a host of other puzzle genres -- all of which are discussed in the book. The main theme is that Carroll's literary writings cannot be truly grasped without taking into account his puzzle art.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781536173420
ISBN-10: 1536173428
Pagini: 155
Dimensiuni: 155 x 230 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Nova Science Publishers Inc
Colecția Nova Science Publishers Inc
Locul publicării:United States

Cuprins

Preface; The Puzzles of Lewis Carroll; Riddles, Anagrams, and Acrostics; The Doublet; Logic; Mathematics; Miscellaneous; Nonsense; References; Index.