Alice Ventures Beyond Wonderland
Author: Robin G. Smith (Writer of children's fiction)
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781527271746
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robin G. Smith (Writer of children's fiction)
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Published: 2021
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781527271746
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Cristopher Hollingsworth
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2009-12
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1587298198
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Alice beyond Wonderland explores the ubiquitous power of Lewis Carroll’s imagined world. Including work by some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in the field of Lewis Carroll studies, all introduced by Karoline Leach’s edgy foreword, Alice beyond Wonderland considers the literary, imaginative, and cultural influences of Carroll’s 19th-century story on the high-tech, postindustrial cultural space of the twenty-first century. The scholars in this volume attempt to move beyond the sexually charged permutations of the "Carroll myth," the image of an introverted man fumbling into literary immortality through his love for a prepubescent Alice. Contributions include an essay comparing Dantean and Carrollian underworlds, one investigating child characters as double agents in untamed lands, one placing Wonderland within the geometrical and algebraic “fourth dimension,” one investigating the visual and verbal interplay of hand imagery, and one exploring the influence of Japanese translations of Alice on the Gothic-Lolita subculture of neo-Victorian enthusiasts. This is a bold, capacious, and challenging work.
Author: Colleen Anderson
Publisher: Exile Book of Anthology
Published: 2018-05-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781550967661
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lewis Carroll explored childlike wonder and the bewildering realm of adult rules and status, which clashed in bizarre ways. And although it seems we all know something about Alice and Wonderland, we--like Alice herself upon her first reading of Jabberwocky--find "It fills my head with ideas, but I don't know what they are." So as each new generation falls under Carroll's word spells, each in turn must attempt to understand what Alice and Wonderland might mean in the context of their world and in their time. This collection of twenty-first century speculative fiction stories is inspired by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, The Hunting of the Snark, and to some degree, aspects of the life of the author, Charles Dodgson, and the real-life Alice (Liddell). Enjoy our wild ride down into and back up out of the rabbit hole Preface by David Day Authors: Patrick Bollivar, Mark Charke, Christine Daigle, Robert Dawson, Linda DeMeulemeester, Pat Flewwelling, Geoff Gander and Fiona Plunkett, Cait Gordon, Costi Gurgu, Kate Heartfield, Elizabeth Hosang, Nicole Iversen, J.Y.T. Kennedy, Danica Lorer, Catherine MacLeod, Bruce Meyer, Dominik Parisien, Alexandra Renwick, Andrew Robertson, Lisa Smedman, Sara C. Walker, James Wood
Author: Anna Kérchy
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2016-08-30
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1476666687
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Part of Alice's appeal is her ambiguity, which makes possible a range of interpretations in adapting Lewis Carroll's classic Wonderland stories to various media. Popular re-imaginings of Alice and her topsy-turvy world reveal many ways of eliciting enchantment and shaping make-believe. Late 20th century and 21st century adaptations interact with the source texts and with each other--providing readers with an elaborate fictional universe. This book fully explores today's multi-media journey to Wonderland.
Author: Lewis Carroll
Publisher:
Published: 1946
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In his perilous journey home after the Trojan War, Odysseus must pass through the land of the Cyclopes, encounter Circe the Enchantress, and face the terrible Charybdis and the six headed serpent Scylla.
Author: Lewis Carroll
Publisher: The Floating Press
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 1877527815
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Alice in Wonderland (also known as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), from 1865, is the peculiar and imaginative tale of a girl who falls down a rabbit-hole into a bizarre world of eccentric and unusual creatures. Lewis Carroll's prominent example of the genre of "literary nonsense" has endured in popularity with its clever way of playing with logic and a narrative structure that has influence generations of fiction writing.
Author: Catherine Nichols
Publisher:
Published: 2014-11-18
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 193799497X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents a history of Alice's adventures in Wonderland, discussing works that were inspired by Lewis Carroll's classic tale.
Author: Robert A. Jacobs
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781558497276
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When President Harry Truman introduced the atomic bomb to the world in 1945, he described it as a God-given harnessing of "the basic power of the universe." Six days later a New York Times editorial framed the dilemma of the new Atomic Age for its readers: "Here the long pilgrimage of man on Earth turns towards darkness or towards light." American nuclear scientists, aware of the dangers their work involved, referred to one of their most critical experiments as "tickling the dragon's tail." Even after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, most Americans may not have been sure what an atomic bomb was or how it worked. But they did sense that it had fundamentally changed the future of the human race. In this book, Robert Jacobs analyzes the early impact of nuclear weapons on American culture and society. He does so by examining a broad range of stories, or "nuclear narratives," that sought to come to grips with the implications of the bomb's unprecedented and almost unimaginable power. Beginning with what he calls the "primary nuclear narrative," which depicted atomic power as a critical agent of social change that would either destroy the world or transform it for the better, Jacobs explores a variety of common themes and images related to the destructive power of the bomb, the effects of radiation, and ways of surviving nuclear war. He looks at civil defense pamphlets, magazines, novels, and films to recover the stories the U.S. government told its citizens and soldiers as well as those presented in popular culture. According to Jacobs, this early period of Cold War nuclear culture?from 1945 to the banning of above-ground testing in 1963?was distinctive for two reasons: not only did atmospheric testing make Americans keenly aware of the presence of nuclear weapons in their lives, but radioactive fallout from the tests also made these weapons a serious threat to public health, separate from yet directly linked to the danger of nuclear war.
Author: U. C. Knoepflmacher
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1998-08-03
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780226448152
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Behind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales lurks the spectre of an intense 19th-century debate about the very nature--and ownership--of childhood. In VENTURES INTO CHILDLAND, scholar U.C. Knoepflmacher probes deeply into the relations between the lives of beloved Victorian authors and their "children's tales". 39 illustrations.