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Shortsleeve, Kevin. "The Politics of Nonsense : Civil Unrest, Otherness and National Mythology in Nonsense Literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504010.

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Khasawneh, Hana F. "The dynamics of nonsense literature: 1846-1940." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488593.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Sussex, 2008.The thesis outlines the course of Victorian nonsense as a playful form of children's literature since Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll and its resurgence in the modernist novel as a dialogic form of writing that calls attention to the physicality of the text: its texture, sound, shape and colour.

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Rossiter, Edward. "A theory of nonsense." Thesis, University of Westminster, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.319628.

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Clare, Aingeal Mary Aisling. ""Wonderland's wanderland" : James Joyce's debt to Victorian nonsense literature." Thesis, University of York, 2011. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14220/.

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This thesis examines the literary relationship between James Joyce and Victorian nonsense, particularly Lewis Carroll. Tracing the defining characteristics of literary nonsense beyond the Victorian period, it aims to assess what we mean by 'literary nonsense', and to evaluate the terms of Joyce's nonsense inheritance. The thesis is divided into four chapters: Chapter One: "'A letters from a person to a place about a thing": The Nonsense Letter.' This chapter looks at central nonsense themes of miscommunication, the (mis)construction of meaning, textual play, and the inadequacies and absurditie

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Taskesen, Bengu. "Sense Through Nonsense Reading Difficult Poetry." Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605178/index.pdf.

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This thesis analyses the difficulties in reading modern poetry that arise out of not the references but the unconventional use of language, and presents them in a theoretical framework based on Julia Kristeva&rsquo<br>s semanalytic theory and Melanie Parsons&rsquo<br>s application of it to a comparison of Nonsense literature and twentieth century poetry. Then aspects of the works of G. M. Hopkins, Dylan Thomas and Edith Sitwell are discussed and poems by these poets are analysed within this framework.

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Heyman, Michael Benjamin. "Isles of Boshen : Edward Lear's literary nonsense in context." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1999. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2822/.

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This thesis investigates three major areas in the background of Edward Lear's literary nonsense: the parodic relationship with text and genre of early children's literature, the trends behind Lear's innovative illustration style, and the "nonsense" child construct manifest within the genre, which I claim is, in many ways, an expression of the Romantic conception of the child. The first chapter explores the parodic basis of nonsense. Most literary nonsense is referential; it often begins by inhabiting a genre or individual work, but what it does to the original is debatable. Some critics see no

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Soto, Fernando Jorge. "Sources, symbols, identities, and metamorphoses in Carroll’s ‘Nonsense’ and Macdonald’s Fantasy." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2295/.

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Lewis Carroll, and George MacDonald are responsible for some of the most popular yet obscure texts in the English Canon. Because Carroll and MacDonald are often credited with pioneering much of their genres — Nonsense Literature and Fantasy Literature — it seems that often they are labeled as originators, and not as active contributing members of a much larger literary tradition. Carroll and MacDonald were close friends and literary confidants, using each other’s works, as well as employing that of other writers. This is a study of the sources Carroll and MacDonald used in an attempt to better

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Fang, Xuan, and 方璇. "Commonsense and nonsense, a cultural-philosophical adventure in Alice's wonderland." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43223989.

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Stockton, William H. "Sex, sense, and nonsense the anal erotics of early modern comedy /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3274908.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of English, 2007.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-07, Section: A, page: 2960. Adviser: Linda Charnes. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Apr. 10, 2008).

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Palmer, Helen. "A manifesto for nonsense : the futurist drive in Deleuze's poetics." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2012. http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/8021/.

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This thesis presents a critical analysis of Deleuze’s philosophy of language, using and examining Russian and Italian futurist manifestos to draw out the ‘futurist’ aspects of Deleuze’s language and thought. These aspects constitute a poetics of Deleuze as well as a poetics of the avant-garde, presenting in both areas the celebrated, utopian state of language as dynamic, performative matter. The way in which futurist manifestos often attempt to perform and demand their aims simultaneously, and the temporal problems which arise due to this, is an operation which can be perceived in Deleuze’s wr

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Buchbinder, Alison H. ""Through the looking-glass" magical and misused objects in nineteenth century children's literature /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 94 p, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1597631381&sid=31&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Marcello, Manuela Graton. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland : o nonsense visto como sátira na obra de Lewis Carroll /." São José do Rio Preto, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/143884.

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Orientador: Peter James Harris<br>Banca: Lauro Maia Amorim<br>Banca: João Luís Cardoso Tápias Ceccantini<br>Resumo: Publicada em 1865 e considerada obra nonsense, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland é o livro mais conhecido de Lewis Carroll (pseudônimo de Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). Escrito e publicado no período vitoriano, Alice apresenta um cenário repleto de fantasia onde a protagonista vive suas aventuras, que são vistas por muitos leitores como algo meramente fantasioso e desprovido de lógica. A partir de leituras relacionadas à sociedade vitoriana e ao discurso histórico, percebe-se que os a

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Fang, Xuan. "Commonsense and nonsense, a cultural-philosophical adventure in Alice's wonderland." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B43223989.

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Thomaz, Nathalia Xavier. "Alice em metamorfose: o grotesco e o nonsense em diálogo nas obras de Carroll e Svankmajer." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8156/tde-30082012-121734/.

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Esta dissertação estuda comparativamente o grotesco presente no manuscrito Alices Adventures Underground, de Lewis Carroll e no filme Alice (1988) do diretor Jan Svankmajer. Considerando a diferença dos campos narrativos em que atuam, relevou-se a especificidade de cada suporte, identificando como cada artista desenvolveu a estética em seu trabalho. Para focar a análise, selecionamos alguns aspectos: o início das histórias, o personagem do coelho branco, as mudanças de tamanho sofridas por Alice, a união do humor e do horror e o encerramento das narrativas. Observamos como esses elementos, mar

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Driscoll, Mark W. "Erotic empire, grotesque empire work and text in Japan's imperial modernism /." online access from Digital dissertation consortium, 2000. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?9953667.

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Bastos, Lucia Kopschitz 1957. "Anotações sobre leitura e nonsense." [s.n.], 1996. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270924.

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Orientador: Maria Bernadete Marques Abaurre<br>Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-21T13:33:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bastos_LuciaKopschitz_D.pdf: 13654633 bytes, checksum: d012276c381dd92ddef25d91f0689c93 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1996<br>Resumo: O que está em discussão nesta tese é a construção do sentido na leitura, discussão possibilitada aqui por uma das maneiras de se estudar o sentido, ou seja, perseguir justamente a sua falta. O nonsense é essencial à definição de sentido porque constitu

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Markodimitrakis, Michail-Chrysovalantis. "Gothic Agents Of Revolt: The Female Rebel In Pan's Labyrinth, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1460074928.

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Jo, Il [Verfasser], Lutz [Gutachter] Danneberg, and Steffen [Gutachter] Martus. "Bezugnahme statt Nonsens / Il Jo ; Gutachter: Lutz Danneberg, Steffen Martus." Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2005. http://d-nb.info/1208079298/34.

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Baptista, Sara Alexandra Boloto. "Alice's adventures in wonderland e Through the looking-glass : dimensões do cómico nas paisagens do discurso nonsense." Master's thesis, Porto : [Edição do Autor], 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/14513.

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Em vista da permeabilidade conceptual do nonsense literário, a exploração do eixo cómico de Aliceþs Adventures in Wonderland e Through the Looking-glass é uma via de demarcação teórica e análise prática do nonsense carrolliano. Com efeito, tendo previamente assumido uma linha de tradição literária enraizada no cómico, estabelecem-se várias conexões entre o discurso nonsense, enquadrado nos esquemas socioculturais vitorianos, e as práticas linguísticas pós-românticas, nomeadamente a introversão da linguagem poética na sua significação interna que legitima a construção verbal nonsense deslocada

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Baptista, Sara Alexandra Boloto. "Alice's adventures in wonderland e Through the looking-glass : dimensões do cómico nas paisagens do discurso nonsense." Dissertação, Porto : [Edição do Autor], 1999. http://aleph.letras.up.pt/F?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=000100904.

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Em vista da permeabilidade conceptual do nonsense literário, a exploração do eixo cómico de Aliceþs Adventures in Wonderland e Through the Looking-glass é uma via de demarcação teórica e análise prática do nonsense carrolliano. Com efeito, tendo previamente assumido uma linha de tradição literária enraizada no cómico, estabelecem-se várias conexões entre o discurso nonsense, enquadrado nos esquemas socioculturais vitorianos, e as práticas linguísticas pós-românticas, nomeadamente a introversão da linguagem poética na sua significação interna que legitima a construção verbal nonsense deslocada

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Lima, Natália Sampaio Alencar. "Alice in Wonderland da literatura para o cinema: um estudo da tradução da era vitoriana e do nonsense literário de Lewis Carroll para o cinematográfico no estilo Burtoniano." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFC, 2016. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/21810.

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LIMA, Natália Sampaio Alencar. Alice in Wonderland da literatura para o cinema: um estudo da tradução da era vitoriana e do nonsense literário de Lewis Carroll para o cinematográfico no estilo Burtoniano. 2016. 124f. - Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução, Fortaleza (CE), 2016.<br>Submitted by Gustavo Daher (gdaherufc@hotmail.com) on 2017-01-23T17:26:37Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_nsalima.pdf: 2723401 bytes, checksum: 76593b29068fbf5f676737d07957b159 (MD5)<br>Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_beze

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Lima, NatÃlia Sampaio Alencar. "Alice in Wonderland da literatura para o cinema: um estudo da traduÃÃo da era vitoriana e do nonsense literÃrio de Lewis Carroll para o cinematogrÃfico no estilo burtoniano." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2016. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=17909.

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nÃo hÃ<br>Esta pesquisa busca analisar os elementos utilizados por Tim Burton para representar a Era Vitoriana atravÃs do figurino, meio de transporte e decoraÃÃo. Trabalharemos tambÃm com a traduÃÃo em imagens do nonsense em sua adaptaÃÃo fÃlmica Alice in Wonderland (2010). Nessa perspectiva, o presente trabalho resulta de um estudo comparativo entre o filme e a obra na qual se baseia, o cÃnone da literatura infantil Aliceâs Adventures in Wonderland de Lewis Carroll (1865). Para tanto, faremos um cotejo entre as duas obras Ã luz das teorias de Elizabeth Sewell (2015), Wim Tigges, (1988) e Sus

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Hellman, Vold Anne. "Adaption och subversion : Återbruk, mening och nonsens i Block av Ulf Karl Olov Nilsson." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Gender, Culture and History, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-1624.

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<p>The Swedish contemporary poet Ulf Karl Olov Nilsson (UKON) creates his poems by recycling and manipulating existing material. Though the overall opinion of his work has been positive, the idea that experimental poetry focus shape on the expense of content has led critics to either interpret the nonsensical and absurd aspects of UKON’s poetics as a consequence of the technical methods he uses to create his poetry, or to look beyond the nonsensical and absurd aspects to focus the fact that the poems creates meaning at all. The poems of UKON’s sixth collection of poems, Block (2005), differ fr

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Bierhanzl, Jan. "L'itinéraire de la signifiance éthique dans "Autrement qu'être ou au-delà de l'essence" d'Emmanuel Levinas." Thesis, Dijon, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012DIJOL024.

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Le présent travail tente de retracer le parcours de la signifiance éthique. Bien que le trait structurel décisif du mouvement de signifiance éthique soit le « pour l’autre », nous montrons qu’en suivant la double méthode phénoménologique de la concrétisation-et-emphase, Levinas accomplit ce mouvement par d’autres traits structurels: « à sens unique », « à partir de soi », « malgré soi », « autre dans le même », « je est un autre », « pour rien » et « par l’autre ». Le chapitre II apporte un trait signifiant limite « l’un pour tous les autres », articulant l’éthique avec la justice. Néanmoins,

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Pereira, Marcílio Machado. "Caminhos contemporâneos Cortázar e outros destruidores de bússolas." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2010. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=2691.

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A presente tese se ocupa de uma vertente da literatura e do cinema contemporâneos, especialmente do escritor Julio Cortázar e do cineasta David Lynch, que: busca um novo tratamento para a realidade, não esconde os artifícios discursivos das obras, joga com estratégias ilusionistas e antiilusionistas, debate a própria ficção por meio de recursos metaficcionais, que se utiliza da metáfora do teatro como espaço diferenciado e como palco de ilusões e que trabalha com a questão do fantástico (ou absurdo). Grande parte do trabalho é dedicada ao estudo da obra do escritor argentino Julio Cortázar. Es

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Minslow, Sarah. "Can children's literature be non-colonising? A dialogic approach to nonsense." 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/802970.

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Research Doctorate - PhD English<br>This thesis challenges the idea that children’s literature is an inherently colonising act. By applying Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of dialogism and the carnivalesque to the nonsense literature of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll, I show that children’s texts can be read as non-colonising. A dialogic reading of Edward Lear’s limericks and Lewis Carroll’s Alice books shows that these texts are non-colonising and emancipatory because they do not promote one worldview or impose a concept of the essentialised child onto the reader. Instead, they challenge the arbitr

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Minslow, Sarah. "Can children's literature be non-colonising? A dialogic approach to nonsense." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/802970.

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Research Doctorate - PhD English<br>This thesis challenges the idea that children’s literature is an inherently colonising act. By applying Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of dialogism and the carnivalesque to the nonsense literature of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll, I show that children’s texts can be read as non-colonising. A dialogic reading of Edward Lear’s limericks and Lewis Carroll’s Alice books shows that these texts are non-colonising and emancipatory because they do not promote one worldview or impose a concept of the essentialised child onto the reader. Instead, they challenge the arbitr

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Czudek, Lucja. "Polský a český nonsens v literatuře pro děti." Master's thesis, 2020. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-434586.

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The diploma thesis describes Polish and Czech nonsense in children's literature. The main goal is to define nonsense literature, its development from a historical and formative point of view, considering contemporary events. The first part of the thesis focuses on the theoretical definition of the term nonsense and its historical aspect, especially on the two key representatives of English nonsense Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll. The next part deals with the development of Polish nonsense in children's literature. Two main authors, Julian Tuwim and Jan Brzechwa, who are considered as the creato

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LIN, HSUAN-CHEN, and 林軒辰. "Sailing on Tears of Giants: An Exploration of Nonsense Literature and Children’s Language Development Through the Works of Lewis Carroll and Dr. Seuss." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8xr3ev.

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碩士<br>銘傳大學<br>應用英語學系碩士在職專班<br>107<br>This thesis explores the phenomenon of “nonsense literature for children” through the works of two prominent authors, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, as known as Lewis Carroll and Theodor Seuss Geisel, as known as Dr. Seuss. Naturally taking a comparative approach, the study is not limited to comparison but it also investigates the timing of the aforementioned authors and their success. Timing has twofold interpretation: the first is the examination from historical background, as in the research on Lewis Carroll and Dr. Seuss; the second aims the phase of child

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Jo, Il [Verfasser]. "Bezugnahme statt Nonsens : eine semantische Untersuchung zu Goodmans Symboltheorie und zu literarischen Dada-Artefakten / von Jo, Ill." 2005. http://d-nb.info/976508494/34.

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TURKOVÁ, Jana. "Autorská pohádka v současné české literatuře pro děti." Master's thesis, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-54874.

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Annotation The theme of this diploma thesis is Czech author fairy-tale from 1989 onwards. The first three chapters deal with general information on author fairy-tale, its reader and its history. In the fourth chapter we reflect on original Czech children's books published after 1989 and attempt to describe the current state and developing trends. We selected several representative fairy-tale books and divided them into three principle types of the contemporary Czech author fairy- tale. The imitative-innovative type is closest to the folklore tradition, the nonsense-parodical type is based on p

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Machado, Hugo Filipe Rodrigues. "Fantasy vs repression: representations of the child and the feminine in Lewis Carroll’s Alice Cycle." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/56175.

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Dissertação de mestrado em Língua, Literatura e Cultura Inglesas<br>The aim of this dissertation is to bring Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898) to light as an important writer in the context of the development of Children’s Literature. The work researches both the specific background and the innovations that the author incorporated in his revolutionary Alice cycle: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1871), with regard both to the evolution of the concept of childhood and his representations of the feminine, which echo the beginning o

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