ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND BY LEWIS CAROLL
- both nonsense literature and children literature
- adventures suggest a change
- Wonderland
o far away from reality, “it makes no sense”
o everything there provokes questions
o time and space aren’t neutral in Wonderland, they’re functioning in their own way
o there are some elements of familiar reality but they make no sense
o SENSE IS LOST
o language is overall the mean of asking questions
o at the end the reality of Wonderland was overcame, Alice gained control
- Alice:
o Gets out on the other side of sense
o Finds herself in the world of nonsense
o Uses magic objects to reach something (they have practical meaning)
o Searches the meaning of herself
o Loses the sense of her identity
o Is strange to her body ESTRANGEMENT
o Is strange to her memory (memory creates a stable ground for self – identification)
o Gains control at the end
- Nonsense:
o Is no chaos (chaos has no rules at all)
o Logical
o Systematic
o Has its internal logic
o It’s a system which MAKES NO SENSE