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41	Holmes, Alice, and Ezeulu: Western Rationality in the Context of British Colonialism and Western Modernity Schultz, Andrew B. 19 July 2007 (has links) (PDF) This thesis examines Western rationality, contextualizing that subject in British colonialism and Western modernity. Using Scott Lash's description of academic characterizations of modernity, I explore the “high" modernity of the social sciences represented 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 Heidegger, and Theodor Adorno, I look at Western rationality through its manifestation in British colonialism. I argue that colonialism is a site where rationality's negative legacy is manifest, and that the paradoxical representations of rationality in the books by Carroll and Doyle indicate a problem with the assumption that Western rationality was a universal epistemology. Contrary to the British's own ideas of their rationality, I find that Western rationality is ultimately a culturally-grounded discourse. Using Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God, I examine the intersection between Western rationality and other forms of cultural knowledge, an intersection that occurred through British colonialism. Achebe argues against the universal model of Western rationality and posits instead a relative valuing of each culture's methods of arriving at truth. I use his novel to illustrate the limits of Western rationality and its claim to universality. rationality rational enlightenment reason logic Western Rationality the West colonialism modernism modernity postcolonial postcolonialism eurocentrism ratiocentrism eurocentric ratiocentric Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Chinua Achebe Arrow of God Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle Hound of the Baskervilles English Language and Literature
42	Tea Parties, Fairy Dust, and Cultural Memory: The Maintenance and Development of <i>Alice in Wonderland</i> and <i>Peter Pan</i> Over Time Kim, Jeena 16 July 2014 (has links) No description available. Gender Studies Literature Mass Media Alice in Wonderland Peter Pan gender culture literature British literature popular culture adaptation J M Barrie Lewis Carroll Charles Dodgson material culture costume imperialism historical fiction biopic
43	Alice's Adventures in the Italian Land : translating children's literature in Italy across a century (1872-1988) Berrani, Chiara January 2018 (has links) This research presents a synchronic and a diachronic investigation of six Italian translations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice) across a century (1872-1988). This work draws on Antoine Berman's method for the analysis of literary translations and integrates it with interdisciplinary theoretical approaches focused on the investigation of children's literature in translation. The premises of children's literature studies, translation studies, and retranslation studies underpin the analytical framework that supports the textual analysis. The examination focuses in particular on the translation strategies used to convey in Italian the culture-specific references that contribute to fashion the identity of Alice and her Wonderland. The research operates on two different levels. Firstly, it presents a synchronic investigation concerned with a close reading and analysis of each translation in linguistic and textual terms. The elements examined in the detailed survey offer the opportunity to retrace the translators' unique understanding of Alice and discuss how it was conveyed to the Italian readers. Secondly, it proposes a diachronic investigation comparing, from a chronological perspective, the translation solutions previously identified and examines how the concepts of the image of the child and dual readership have evolved in the Italian translations. The purpose of the study is to investigate the translation strategies to convey Alice in Italian, observe the patterns that emerge from the analysis of the texts and advance explanatory hypotheses that would account for the changes in the translators' understanding of Carroll's novel over time. The close reading the research centres on aims to provide a meticulous collection of the translation solutions found in the texts; these are not confined to particular passages of the book but are found throughout it, thus offering support for future analysis on the translations of Alice. Finally, this research also aims to contribute to the analysis of children's literature in translation by providing an analytical framework able to support the investigation of different aspects of books for children in translation in other languages other than Italian.
44	Gothic Agents Of Revolt: The Female Rebel In Pan's Labyrinth, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass Markodimitrakis, Michail-Chrysovalantis 21 April 2016 (has links) No description available. Literature American Studies Film Studies Gender Studies Cinematography Comparative Literature Political Science Philosophy Gothic gothic literature horror film fascism theory violence cinema victorian literature nonsense children state of exception fairies Nazism Guillermo Del Toro Lewis Carroll Wonderland Pan Labyrinth ideology homo sacer gender death
45	The worlds between, above and below : "growing up" and "falling down" in Alice in Wonderland and Stardust Potter, Mary-Anne 2012 November 1900 (has links) The purpose of my dissertation is to conduct an intertextual study of two fantasy texts — Alice in Wonderland by Victorian author Lewis Carroll, and Stardust by postmodern fantasy author Neil Gaiman — and their filmic re-visionings by Tim Burton and Matthew Vaughn respectively. In scrutinising these texts, drawing on insights from feminist, children’s literature and intertextual theorists, the actions of ‘growing up’ and ‘falling down’ are shown to be indicative of a paradoxical becoming of the text’s central female protagonists, Alice and Yvaine. The social mechanisms of the Victorian age that educate the girl-child into becoming accepting of their domestic roles ultimately alienate her from her true state of being. While she may garner some sense of importance within the imaginary realms of fantasy narratives, as these female protagonists demonstrate, she is reduced to the position of submissive in reality – in ‘growing up’, she must assume a ‘fallen down’ state in relation to the male. / English Studies / M.A. (English) Victorian womanhood Fairy tales Fantasy literature Portals Woman as ‘Other’ Growing up and falling down Self-alienation Neil Gaiman Lewis Carroll 823.8 Alice (Fictitious character : Carroll) Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 -- Influence Literature -- Philosophy Sex role -- Children's literature
46	The worlds between, above and below : "growing up" and "falling down" in Alice in Wonderland and Stardust Potter, Mary-Anne January 1900 (has links) The purpose of my dissertation is to conduct an intertextual study of two fantasy texts — Alice in Wonderland by Victorian author Lewis Carroll, and Stardust by postmodern fantasy author Neil Gaiman — and their filmic re-visionings by Tim Burton and Matthew Vaughn respectively. In scrutinising these texts, drawing on insights from feminist, children’s literature and intertextual theorists, the actions of ‘growing up’ and ‘falling down’ are shown to be indicative of a paradoxical becoming of the text’s central female protagonists, Alice and Yvaine. The social mechanisms of the Victorian age that educate the girl-child into becoming accepting of their domestic roles ultimately alienate her from her true state of being. While she may garner some sense of importance within the imaginary realms of fantasy narratives, as these female protagonists demonstrate, she is reduced to the position of submissive in reality – in ‘growing up’, she must assume a ‘fallen down’ state in relation to the male. / English Studies / M.A. (English) Victorian womanhood Fairy tales Fantasy literature Portals Woman as ‘Other’ Growing up and falling down Self-alienation Neil Gaiman Lewis Carroll 823.8 Alice (Fictitious character : Carroll) Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 -- Influence Literature -- Philosophy Sex role -- Children's literature

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