Lewis Carroll's "Alice" and cognitive narratology : author, reader and characters / Francesca Arnavas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arnavas, Francesca, author.

Contributor:

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Series:

Narratologia ; 73.

Narratologia, 1612-8427 ; Volume 73

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898. Alice's adventures in Wonderland.

Carroll, Lewis.

Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898. Through the looking-glass.

Alice (Fictitious character from Carroll).

Alice.

Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898--Criticism and interpretation.

Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.

Children--Books and reading--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Children.

Children--Books and reading.

Criticism and interpretation.

Great Britain.

History.

Children's stories, English--History and criticism.

Children's stories, English.

Fantasy fiction, English--History and criticism.

Fantasy fiction, English.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 203 pages) : illustrations (some color.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Chapter 1 Why the Alices? p. 1

1.1 Cognitive Narratology: Conceptual Framework p. 1

1.2 Lewis Carroll and the Mysteries of the Mind p. 9

Chapter 2 Virtual Alice p. 25

2.1 "The Question Is - Said Humpty Dumpty - Which Is to Be Master - That's All": The Author p. 26

2.1.1 The Rabbit Hole, Humpty Dumpty, and other Metaphor-Related Images p. 27

2.1.2 Wonderland and the Looking-Glass World as Blended Spaces p. 34

2.1.3 Cognitive Features of Carroll's Creative Inventions p. 36

2.2 "He Was Part of My Dream of course - but then I was Part of His Dream, too!": The Character(s) p. 40

2.2.1 A Curious Child p. 42

2.2.2 The Dreamchild Dreaming p. 48

2.3 "The Magic Words Shall Hold Thee Fast: / Thou Shalt not Heed the Raving Blast": The Readers p. 54

2.3.1 A Cognitive Approach to Fictional Worlds p. 55

2.3.2 The Visual Aspects of Alice's Worlds p. 61

Chapter 3 Mirrored Alice p. 68

3.1 "The More Head-Downwards I Am, the More I Keep Inventing New Things": The Author p. 68

3.1.1 Magic Mirrors and Lewis Carroll p. 70

3.1.2 The Cognitive Significance of Carroll's Mise en Abymes p. 77

3.1.3 The Looking-Glass Land: A Multi-Faceted Narrative Dimension p. 80

3.1.4 Carroll's Own Literary Doubles p. 84

3.1.5 Language Is Not a Mirror: Looking-Glass Insects p. 86

3.2 "So You Are Another Alice": The Character(s) p. 89

3.2.1 Queen Alice p. 91

3.2.2 Two Sides of the Same Coin? Mirrored Characters p. 94

3.2.3 "Impenetrability! That's What / Say!": Here Minds Are Not Mirrors p. 97

3.3 "Which Do You Think It Was?": The Readers p. 99

3.3.1 Mirror Neurons: Caveats and Carroll's "Bright Silvery Mist" p. 101

3.3.2 Mind Games and ToM in Alice's Worlds p. 103

3.3.3 Worlds Upside Down and Meta-Representations in Trouble p. 106

Chapter 4 Emotional Alice p. 112

4.1 "Is This an Extempore Romance of Yours, Dodgson?": The Author p. 114

4.1.1 The "Discovery" of Emotions in Victorian Literature and the Rhetoric of Nonsense Vs Victorian Sentimentality p. 114

4.1.2 "The Poignant Love Song Beneath the Invented Nonsense Words" p. 117

4.1.3 "Still She Haunts Me" p. 120

4.1.4 "Lolita Has Been Safely Solipsized" p. 122

4.2 "What Are Little Girls Made of? Sugar and Spice and All That's Nice": The Character(s) p. 127

4.2.1 Alice's Emotions p. 127

4.2.2 Alice's Actions p. 131

4.2.3 Alice's Body p. 133

4.3 "What Is the Use of a Book, without Pictures or Conversations?": The Readers p. 138

4.3.1 The Feet of Nonsense: Do We Weep for Alice? p. 139

4.3.2 "Tut, Tut, Child! Every Thing's Got a Moral, if only You Can Find It" p. 144

Chapter 5 Unnatural Alice p. 147

5.1 "You May Call It 'Nonsense' if You Like [...] but I've Heard Nonsense, Compared with Which That Would Be as Sensible as a Dictionary!": The Author p. 148

5.1.1 Is Nonsense Unnatural? p. 148

5.1.2 Carroll's Interest in the Supernatural, Unnatural, Hypernatural p. 153

5.1.3 The "Unnaturalness" of the Carrollian Worlds p. 154

5.1.4 Creating the Unnatural: Authorial Strategies and Scientific Connections p. 158

5.2 "... But There's one Great Advantage in It, That One's Memory Works Both Ways": The Character(s) p. 161

5.2.1 Unnatural Minds in the Alices: It's Always Tea-Time p. 162

5.2.2 "... And the Rule Is, Jam Tomorrow and Jam Yesterday - Never Jam Today" p. 168

5.2.3 What Happens in the Minds of Flowers, Cards, Chess Pieces p. 170

5.3 "It Always Makes One a Little Giddy at First": The Readers p. 172

5.3.1 How Do We Grasp the Unnatural? p. 172

5.3.2 The Slippery Nature of the Impossible: Unicorns, Little Girls and Other Fabulous Monsters p. 176.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-197) and indexes.

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ISBN:

9783110689273

3110689278

Publisher Number:

40030488993

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