Valdeck Almeida de Jesus

There are many possible readings of Lewis Carroll’s famous novels Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1871): one might turn on the concept of a phantasmagoria lying just beyond our regular powers of perception; another might be more philosophical, involving theories of parallel or counterfactual worlds unfolding alongside ours; and a third might be more psychological, and hinge on Alice’s naïeveté and emotional and social development as she encounters the strange denizens — the white rabbit, the brutal Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire cat, and so on, which is to say, difference itself writ large — of Wonderland. . John Keene is an author and translator, and Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at Northwestern University

03/01/2011

pdf

2 MB