The Witch on a Vespa (and the case of the Kinetic Potatoes): Nonsense strategies and translation of Kirsi Kunnas’s poem ”Mr Pii Poo”

It has been suggested that in nonsense literature the form sometimes directs the events of the story (Tigges 1988, Lecercle 1994). Translation of a poem may make this even more evident, as with "Mr Pii Poo" (1956, originally “Herra Pii Poo”), a poem by the Finnish author Kirsi Kunnas, born...

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Main Author: Sirke Happonen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies 2017-11-01
Series:The European Journal of Humour Research
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Online Access:https://www.europeanjournalofhumour.org/index.php/ejhr/article/view/222