Taking Silliness Seriously: Jim Henson’s The Muppet Show, the Anglo-American Tradition of Nonsense, and Cultural Critique
Dobrin, Sidney I. ‘‘‘It’s Not Easy Being Green’: Jim Henson, the Muppets, and Ecological Literacy.’’ Wild Things: Children’s Literature and Ecocriticism. Eds. Sidney I. Dobrin and Kenneth Kidd. Detroit, MI: Wayne State UP, 2004. 232–53.
Finch, Christopher. Of Muppets and Men: The Making of the Muppet Show. New York: Knopf, 1981.
Flescher, Jacqueline. ‘‘The Language of Nonsense in Alice.’’ Yale French Studies 43 (1969): 128–44.
Lecercle, Jean-Jacques. The Philosophy of Nonsense: The Intuitions of Victorian Nonsense Literature. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Lopez, Alan. ‘‘Deleuze With Carroll: Schizophrenia and Simulacrum and the Philosophy of Lewis Carroll’s Nonsense.’’ Angelaki: A New Journal in Philosophy, Literature and the Social Sciences 9.3 (December 2004): 101–20.
Noble, Greg, and Rebecca Baldwin. ‘‘Sly Chicks and Troublemakers: Car Stickers, Nonsense and the Allure of Strangeness.’’ Social Semiotics 11.1 (2001): 75–89.
Rackin, Donald. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: Nonsense, Sense, and Meaning. New York: Twayne, 1991.
Sewell, Elizabeth. The Field of Nonsense. London: Chatto and Windus, 1952.
Shires, Linda. ‘‘Fantasy, Nonsense, Parody, and the Status of the Real: The Example of Carroll.’’ Victorian Poetry 26.3 (1988): 267–83.
Stewart, Susan. Nonsense: Aspects of Intertextuality in Folklore and Literature. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1978.
Movies
The Muppet Movie
The Muppets Take Manhattan
Elmo in Grouchland
Television (P = for puppet research, T = for theme and tone research)