The making of the Alice books - Lewis Carroll's uses of earlier Children's Literature

Ronald Reichertz

McGill-Queen's University Press - MQUP

2000

251 páginas

8h 22m

ISBN-13: 9780773520813

The Making of the Alice Books includes discussions of the didactic and nursery-rhyme verse traditionally addressed by Carroll's critics while adding and elaborating connections established within and against the continuum of English-language children's literature.

Analysing Lewis Carroll's Alice books in the context of children's literature from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, Ronald Reichertz argues that Carroll's striking originality was the result of a fusion of his narrative imagination and formal and thematic features from earlier children's literature. Drawing examples from a wide range of children's literature Reichertz demonstrates that the Alice books are infused with conventions of and allusions to earlier works and identifies precursors of Carroll's upside-down, looking-glass, and dream vision worlds. Key passages from related books are reprinted in the appendices, making available many hard-to-find examples of early children's literature.

Resenhas (85)

3 (Bom)

O curioso país das maravilhas

“Mas não desejo estar entre pessoas loucas” falou Alice.

“Oh, mas não podes evitar” falou o gato, “somos todos loucos. Eu sou louco. Você é louca.”

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Alice no país das maravilhas é sem sombra de dúvidas um livro único, com suas diversas reflexões e a inocente curiosidade infantil, o livro se torna bastante especial.