Dec 11, 2009

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Overview

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a masterpiece of children's literature and a major contribution to "nonsense" writing, which uses language according to the rules of play rather than the rules of poetry or prose. Such writing disconnects words from their usual meanings and calls attention to language as an artificial system of communication. In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland the reader is entertained by the ridiculous creatures Alice meets and challenged by them to understand words in new and unusual ways.

The questioning of the meaning and impact of language...