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How Lewis Carroll Built a World Where Nothing Needs to Make Sense


How Lewis Carroll Built a World Where Nothing Needs to Make Sense

Wonderland is everywhere. Over time these tales have imbued themselves into the world, familiar in their own peculiar, well-worn brand of strange.

How did Lewis Carroll build a world where nothing has to make ...

At the prompting of Alice's family, Dodgson compiled the stories into Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. The books were full of ...

Alice in Wonderland: The Sense Behind the Nonsense - Laura Kühnl

The quote from 20th century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein helps us to understand the reason behind her challenge. Alice, who is not familiar ...

Alice's Chain of Thought - Graceguts

As I think of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, it occurs to me that Lewis Carroll has created, in Alice, a rational being in a mad world. She tries to make ...

No one talks about how creepy Lewis Caroll was. : r/literature - Reddit

That's not the only approach, of course, but one doesn't have to take much of Carroll 's biography into account to note the near-obsessive ...

"We're All Mad Here": Sense and Nonsense in Alice in Wonderland

Wonderland's residents and members of Alice's real world speak essentially the same language. However, the creatures in Wonderland take ...

The Great Puzzle: Lewis Carroll & Alice In Wonderland

Charles Dodgson, better known as his pseudonym Lewis Carroll, hated the very books that made him famous for precisely that reason.

Worldbuilding Story Spotlight - Alice in Wonderland - Susan Stradiotto

According to Vandermeer in The Wonderbook, a well realized setting is coherent with consistent logic and the pieces of the world fit together.

Lewis Carroll's Shifting Reputation - Smithsonian Magazine

The next year an expanded version of the story was published as a book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It quickly made the name “Lewis Carroll” famous. He ...

Lewis Carroll: A Man of Many Talents

In brief, it is the story of a young girl who falls down a rabbit hole and makes her way through a strange, surreal world where nothing exactly ...

Lewis Carroll's dissection and restructure of the social self

out the paradoxical position of Victorian man in the world that he has created. As we have seen, the existing form of education, social ...

Through the Looking Glass: Finding Sense in Nonsense With Lewis ...

One of my favorite quotes from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland runs like this: “Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but ...

Making sense of nonsense: writing advice from Lewis Carroll and the

Lewis Carroll is justifiably world-renowned for his whimsical and sometime apparently ridiculously incongruous works of fiction, e.g. Alice in Wonderland.

Logic – Lewis Carroll & Alice - Thought Itself

Lewis Carroll wrote logic puzzles and stories with hidden meanings much like Edgar Allan Poe, and many have wondered if the mystery of Carroll's life may or ...

Alice as Nonsense Literature - Carleton College

Who would have thought that Nonsense could mean so much? Probably not Lewis Carroll. I believe he would argue that the point of nonsense is that ...

Through the Looking Glass: How does Lewis Carroll critically ...

Had I not taken this British Life & Cultures course, I never would have delved deeper into the meaning of this picture and made that connection.

6.1 Literary Snapshot: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice finds herself challenged to make sense of a seemingly absurd world inhabited by odd creatures.

My inspiration: Cathy Cassidy on Alice in Wonderland - The Guardian

She was curious, brave and a little lost, finding her way through a world where nothing made sense, and I liked that; she didn't have all the ...

Lewis Carroll | The Poetry Foundation

The third of 11 children, Dodgson's secluded, quiet, and protected early childhood stands in ironic contrast to the impact he was to have on the world of ...

Sensible Nonsense in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland | Bartleby

None of the rules that she has been taught seem to apply in Wonderland. The characters in Wonderland have no sense of manners and respond to her questions with ...