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Lädt ... The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderlandvon Angela Youngman
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The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland is the first time anyone has investigated the vast range of darker, more threatening aspects of this famous story and the way Alice has been transformed over the years. Although the children's story Alice in Wonderland has been in print for over 150 years, the mysteries and rumors surrounding the story and its creator Lewis Carroll have continued to grow. The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland is the first time anyone has investigated the vast range of darker, more threatening aspects of this famous story and the way Alice has been transformed over the years. This is the Alice of horror films, Halloween, murder and mystery, spectral ghosts, political satire, mental illnesses, weird feasts, Lolita, Tarot, pornography and steampunk. The Beatles based famous songs such as Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and I am the Walrus on Alice in Wonderland, while she has even attracted the attention of world-famous artists including Salvador Dali. Take a look at why the Japanese version of Lolita is so different to that of novelist Vladimir Nabokov - yet both are based on Alice. This is Alice in Wonderland as you have never seen her before: a dark, sometimes menacing, and threatening character. Was Carroll all that he seemed? The stories of his child friends, nude photographs and sketches affect the way modern audiences look at the writer. Was he just a lonely academic, closet pedophile, brilliant puzzle maker or even Jack the Ripper? For a book that began life as a simple children's story, it has resulted in a vast array of dark concepts, ideas and mysteries. So step inside the world of Alice in Wonderland and discover a dark side you never knew existed! Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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I would suggest that any reader bracket their 21st century sensibilities while reading and assessing the person of Carroll/Dodgson. The easy and lazy way to understand him is to pretend he didn't exist in the time in which he did. It is also the most unfair. That said, there are still a lot of questions even when assessed within his own time, particularly because the time was very much a transitory time with respect to how society understood children/adult relations and childhood itself. What seemed appropriate was, within a decade or so, deemed questionable and, now, will make people believe they know enough to condemn a human being. So read within the historical context of the time.
As for the many ways the images and scenes of the books have been appropriated over time, I think the format of the book helped to keep these separate. yes, it leads to a small bit of repetition, largely because each chapter, presenting a different Alice, reads like a self contained essay. If each chapter is taken as such, the repetition does not hinder the flow and instead helps to make the presentation of each chapter/essay more compelling.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley. (