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Aspects of Alice

Robert S. Phillips (1971)

SubgenreMiddle Grade Fantasy
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
Pages450 ()
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Pt. 1. Personal and biographical: Today's "Wonder-world" needs Alice / W.H. Auden -- Alice / Roger Lancelyn Green -- Lewis Carroll / T.B. Strong -- Lewis Carroll / Virginia Woolf -- Lewis Carroll's gay tapestry / Alexander Woollcott -- On the Alice books / Walter de la Mare -- Escape through the looking-glass / Florence Becker Lennon -- pt. 2. As Victorian and children's literature: From children's books / Anonymous -- From literature for the little ones / Edward Salmon -- Alice in Wonderland in perspective / Elsie Leach -- Alice books and the metaphors of Victorian childhood / Jan. B. Gordon -- Alice / Robert Graves -- pt. 3. Comparisons with other writers: Lewis Carroll and T.S. Elliot as nonsense poets / Elizabeth Sewell -- On Lewis Carroll's Alice and her white knight and Wordsworth's "Ode on immortality" / Horace Gregory -- Did Mark Twain write Alice's adventures in Wonderland? / George Lanning -- Alice meets the Don / Jon Hinz --^ pt. 4. Philosophical and others: Philosopher's Alice in Wonderland / Roger W. Holmes -- Wonderland revisited / Harry Levin -- C.L. Dodgson: the poet logician / Edmund Wilson -- Last days of Alice / Allen Tate -- pt. 5. Church and chess: Lewis Carroll and the Oxford Movement / Shane Leslie -- Through the looking-glass / Alexander L. Taylor -- pt. 6. Language, and parody, and satire: Poems in Alice in Wonderland / Florence Milner -- Burble through the Tulgey Wood / John Ciardi -- Note on Humpty Dumpty / J.B. Priestley -- Logic and language in Through the looking-glass / Patricia Meyer Spacks -- pt. 7. Freudian interpretations: Alice in Wonderland psychoanalyzed / A.M.E. Goldschmidt -- Psychoanalytic remarks on Alice in Wonderland and Lewis Carroll / Paul Schilder -- From "Lewis Caroll's adventures in Wonderland" / John Skinner -- About the symbolization of Alices's adventures in Wonderland / Martin Grotjahn --^ From "The character of Dodgson as revealed in the writings of Carroll" / Phyllis Greenacre -- From "Further insights" / Géza