(Mobile library) Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme
✿ Chris Roberts ✿
| #423795 in Books | Gotham | 2006-08-17 | 2006-08-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.98 x.61 x5.34l, | File Name: 1592402178 | 202 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| FASCINATING|By Paul|FASCINATING! It gave me an appetite for finding out the take of others. I know at least one author, "Dr Merne Harris", who picked up the initial "catch-phrase", "Humpty Dumpty and his friends".
When I picked this up, I actually saw a copy of Dr Harris's book available on e-bay. He taught at "Mennard College".
Have fun!|0 of 0 people|From Publishers Weekly|Starred . A librarian by night and a London tour guide by day, Roberts deploys an informal style of scholarship to dazzling effect, transforming a catalogue of familiar nursery rhymes into a treasure trove of tantalizingly slippe
Was Little Jack Horner a squatter? "Baa Baa Black Sheep" a bleat about taxation? What did Jack and Jill do on that hill? Who was Mary? And why was she contrary?
This witty and ingenious book delves into the hidden meanings of forty of the most innocuous- sounding nursery rhymes, uncovering a seething subtext of sexual innuendo, religious hatred, and political subversion. Heavy Words Lightly Thrown provides a fascinating history lesson, teases out some alar...
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