Alice's Adventures

Alice's Adventures
Author: Will Brooker
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780826414335

The author of "Batman Unmasked" and "Using the Force", turns his attention to Lewis Carroll and Alice taking the reader through a revealing tour of late 20th Century popular culture, following Alice and her creator wherever they go. The result is an in-depth analysis of how one original creation symbolizes different things to different people.

Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
Author: Zoe Jaques
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2016-05-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317105516

Emerging in several different versions during the author's lifetime, Lewis Carroll's Alice novels have a publishing history almost as magical and mysterious as the stories themselves. Zoe Jaques and Eugene Giddens offer a detailed and nuanced account of the initial publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and investigate how their subsequent transformations through print, illustration, film, song, music videos, and even stamp-cases and biscuit tins affected the reception of these childhood favourites. The authors consider issues related to the orality of the original tale and its impact on subsequent transmission, the differences between the manuscripts and printed editions, and the politics of writing and publishing for children in the 1860s. In addition, they take account of Carroll's own responses to the books' popularity, including his writing of major adaptations and a significant body of meta-textual commentary, and his reactions to the staging of Alice in Wonderland. Attentive to the child reader, how changing notions of childhood identity and needs affected shifting narratives of the story, and the representation of the child's body by various illustrators, the authors also make a significant contribution to childhood studies.

World Famous Adventures Collection: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland/ Grimm’s Fairy Tales/ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

World Famous Adventures Collection: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland/ Grimm’s Fairy Tales/ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Author: Lewis Carroll;Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm;Mark Twain
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Total Pages:
Release: 2022-04-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This Combo Collection (Set of 3 Books) includes All-time Bestseller Books. This anthology contains: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Grimm’s Fairy Tales The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Best Works of Lewis Carroll: [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll/ The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits by Lewis Carroll/ Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll]

Best Works of Lewis Carroll: [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll/ The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits by Lewis Carroll/ Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll]
Author: Lewis Carroll
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2024-06-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Book 1: Tumble down the rabbit hole into the whimsical world of nonsense with “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.” Lewis Carroll invites readers on a fantastical journey with Alice as she encounters peculiar characters, magical realms, and curious situations. Filled with wordplay and surreal charm, this timeless classic continues to captivate readers of all ages with its imaginative storytelling. Book 2: Embark on a peculiar quest with “The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits by Lewis Carroll.” Lewis Carroll takes readers on a nonsensical and humorous adventure as a motley crew sets out to hunt the elusive Snark. Filled with linguistic playfulness and Carroll's unique brand of humor, this poem is a delightful exploration of absurdity and imagination. Book 3: Step through the looking glass into the enchanting sequel, “Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.” Lewis Carroll continues Alice's adventures in a fantastical mirror world, introducing new characters and weaving a tapestry of surreal events. With its clever use of language and dreamlike atmosphere, this sequel is a literary marvel that continues to bewitch readers with its whimsy and charm.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Author: Lewis Carroll
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1998
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780192833747

Journey to Wonderland and through the Looking Glass with Alice. Meet the unforgettable characters of these two magical books, collected in one volume: the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and many others. Nothing is ordinary in the surprising worlds Alice finds herself in! Lewis Carroll's (1832-1898) popular books about Alice marked a turning point in children's literature--for the first time, children's stories were primarily for fun, rather than for instruction or moralizing.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Decoded

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Decoded
Author: David Day
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2015-09-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0385682271

This gorgeous 150th anniversary edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is also a revelatory work of scholarship. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland--published 150 years ago in 1865--is a book many of us love and feel we know well. But it turns out we have only scratched the surface. Scholar David Day has spent many years down the rabbit hole of this children's classic and has emerged with a revelatory new view of its contents. What we have here, he brilliantly and persuasively argues, is a complete classical education in coded form--Carroll's gift to his "wonder child" Alice Liddell. In two continuous commentaries, woven around the complete text of the novel for ease of cross-reference on every page, David Day reveals the many layers of teaching, concealed by manipulation of language, that are carried so lightly in the beguiling form of a fairy tale. These layers relate directly to Carroll's interest in philosophy, history, mathematics, classics, poetry, spiritualism and even to his love of music--both sacred and profane. His novel is a memory palace, given to Alice as the great gift of an education. It was delivered in coded form because in that age, it was a gift no girl would be permitted to receive in any other way. Day also shows how a large number of the characters in the book are based on real Victorians. Wonderland, he shows, is a veritable "Who's Who" of Oxford at the height of its power and influence in the Victorian Age. There is so much to be found behind the imaginary characters and creatures that inhabit the pages of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. David Day's warm, witty and brilliantly insightful guide--beautifully designed and stunningly illustrated throughout in full colour--will make you marvel at the book as never before.

Ambiguity as a Source of Humor in Lewis Carroll’s "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland"

Ambiguity as a Source of Humor in Lewis Carroll’s
Author: Charlotte Bahr
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2013-09-06
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 3656489971

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Würzburg, language: English, abstract: "But I don’t want to go among mad people,’ Alice remarked. ‘Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the Cat: ‘we’re all mad here. I‘m mad. You‘re mad." This quote captures like nothing else the essence of Lewis Carroll’s classic children’s book Alice in Wonderland. The story of a young girl getting bored during a hot summer day and slipping into a dreamland full of odd creatures has enchanted generations of children myself included. Alice is not a typical children’s book though, as it is quite multilayered, thanks to Carroll’s clever play with language. Carroll, common name Charles Lutwige Dodgson, was quite fond of using several stylistic devices like punning, to delight the young readership his stories were for. But I also noticed that he used ambiguity in quite a few instances. Many characters are very fond of ambiguity most prominently The Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, the Mock Turtle, Gryphon and the Red King. Carroll mostly uses ambiguity to create confusion through misunderstandings, mostly on Alice’s dispense, which in return tends to create a certain humor for the reader. In this seminar paper I will discuss Carroll’s use of ambiguity in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by analyzing several instances of it that appear throughout the novel. I will start out by defining ambiguity and in what ways ambiguity has been researched by other linguists and what results their studies produced. I am also going to explore the origins of Alice in Wonderland. How did Carroll come up with it? What kind of story is it? On the stylistic level I will examine what Carroll’s general stance on ambiguity was and how he used it to create both confusion and comedy? I will take a closer look at the different forms of ambiguity he employs and how characters react to the usage of it.