The Acoustics of Nonsense in Lewis Carroll's Alice Tales
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21791232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anna Kérchy (0000-0001-9042-9545, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | Supplement |
| Pages | 175-190 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Research in Children s Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1755-6198 • E-ISSN: 1755-6201 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/ircl.2020.0345 |
| OpenAlex | W3033959969 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article explores how Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's fantasies about Alice's adventures in Wonderland and through the looking-glass (1865, 1871), published under the pen-name Lewis Carroll, renewed the genre of children's literature by turning the vocal play of literary nonsense into the organising principle of child-centric, non-didactic, ludic narratives. 1 It shows how his language games strategically undermine tyrannical ideological structures, whether in the form of discursive ‘regimes of truth’ (Foucault 80), the institution of monarchy, the adult–child hierarchy maintained by a pedagogy of fear, or speciesist supremacy of human over animal
Adventure · Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Ideology · Institution · Literature · Monarchy · Narrative · Nonsense · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Law · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |