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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Lewis Carroll"”.
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The Literature of Verbal Nonsense in Lewis Carroll, Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco
… But the greatest masters of English nonsense are Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. Carroll gives, in <em>Alice in Wonderland</em> and <em>Through the Looking-glass,</em> the principles underlying a carefully-built structure. In Lewis Carroll's nonsense world, the creatures break the determinism of …
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Satire and Synthesis: Parody and Satire of Victorian Education in the Works of Lewis Carroll
… rote memorization. An analysis of the works of Lewis Carroll reveals significant instances of parody, pastiche, and satire on these styles of education and their corresponding reform. Unlike traditional satire, however, Lewis Carroll’s satire does not simply criticize these targets, but utilizes …
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Vision and Re-Vision of the Dreamchild: Artistic Representations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll, Sir John Tenniel, and Arthur Rackham
… This thesis focuses on three of those artists: Lewis Carroll (also the author of the text), Sir John Tenniel, and Arthur Rackham. Through comparison with the words of the text and attention to artistic detail, this thesis examines the vision each of these three artists had of the story and, in …
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Looking at the Curious Game of Translation: Exploring the Worlds of Alice, Wittgenstein and the Translator
… is given to the works of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Lewis Carroll, in the belief that they offer mutually complementary guides to the world of language, a world that is organic, idiosyncratic and changing, a world that can neither be reduced to formulae nor controlled. By focusing on the particular …
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Alice: uma aventura intersemiótica sob o olhar da sátira menipéia
… Alice Found There (1871), by the English writer Lewis Carroll to the movie Alice in Wonderland (2010), directed by Tim Burton in order to investigate the proximities and distances of the written texts to the filmic under the gaze of menippean satire, comic-serious genre that mixes fantasy and …
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Carrollian language arts & rhetoric: Dodgson's quest for order & meaning, with a purpose
Lewis Carroll (Rev. Charles Dodgson) is a language specialist who has verifiably altered our lexicon and created fictional worlds that serve as commentary on our ability to effectively create meaning within our existing communicative systems. This ability to create language and illustrations of …
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Down The Rabbit Hole: A look at integrating classic literature into a secondary mathematics curriculum
… and Through the Looking Glass written by Lewis Carroll. The lessons focus on a mix between teacher and student centered models. The first lesson is on using Venn diagrams. The second lesson is on the construction of truth tables.
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The Scientific romances of Charles Howard Hinton : the fourth dimension as hyperspace, hyperrealism and protomodernism
… the work of contemporary writers including Lewis Carroll, H. G. Wells, HenryJames, Friedrich Nietzsche and William James.
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Of Mushrooms and Shangri-L.A.: Food in Fantastic Literature for the Young
… the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis, and the Dangerous Angels series by Francesca Lia Block.
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Holmes, Alice, and Ezeulu: Western Rationality in the Context of British Colonialism and Western Modernity
… in the books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle. I then explore the cultural studies critique of that characterization of modernity in the book Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe. Using the theory of Jean Francois Lyotard, Martin …
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Uma visita ao universo matemático de Lewis Carrol e o (re)encontro com sua lógica do nonsense
Notable mathematics teacher, Lewis Carroll, pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), made the mixture of mathematics with literature a ludic environment for learning that discipline. Author of Alice s Adventures In Wonderland and its sequel Alice Through The Looking Glass, he eventually …
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An analysis of György Ligeti's Nonsense Madrigals
… of texts which includes literary parodies by Lewis Carroll. In Chapter One, the monograph provides a brief biography and explores a chronological survey of Ligeti’s compositional techniques and influences leading up to the Nonsense Madrigals. Chapter Two provides a detailed analysis of each …
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Teaching in the Real World: Autoethnography Meets Meta-Autoethnography from a Practicing Teacher's Perspective
… choice for using narrative vignettes tied to the Lewis Carroll novels Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and their connection with my adolescent and professional experiences. I explain my choice of autoethnography as my method and how I have come to terms with the vulnerability …
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Intertextuality in film adaptation and its translation: the case of tim burton’s film “alice in wonderland” (2010) and its lithuanian translation /
… “Alice in Wonderland” (2010), based on Lewis Carroll’s novels “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” (1865) and “Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There” (1871) is approached as intersemiotic translation with the special focus on the aspect of intertextuality. For this purpose, …
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Meme transmission in artificial proto-cultures
… as six impossible things before breakfast."<br/>Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found<br/>There[21]<br/><br/>This thesis examines an artificial proto-culture of e-Puck robots to examine which factors affect the transmission of memes, in the form of sounds imitated back …
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Down the rabbit hole: An Exhibition – and – Alice in Wonderland engaging with the reflexive project of the self: An exegesis
… exploration with an understanding of the author, Lewis Carroll, and the English Victorian society that he was a part of. Moreover, seeing the story as both a hero’s journey and a kind of dictionary of Jungian symbols, this exegesis explores the self-actualisation of Alice through the theories of …
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Haunted to Death: Subverting Genre and Reader Expectations in Lewis Carroll's Phantasmagoria
<p>This study of Lewis Carroll’s Phantasmagoria argues that the poem failed to achieve critical and popular success due to unmet reader expectations. The poem is a haunted house or ghost story and in many ways follows the familiar formula of the Victorian ghost story. However, Carroll’s political …
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Culture and identity in Scottish children's fiction
… children’s authors including writers such as Lewis Carroll and C.S.Lewis. Though the work of Scottish authors was included in British Children’s Literature, it was not recognised specifically for its distinctively Scottish elements. In fact, increasingly from the nineteenth century, it began …
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