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Alice in Wonderland and Utopia
Author(s) -
Hadomi Leah,
Elbaz Robert
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
orbis litterarum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.109
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1600-0730
pISSN - 0105-7510
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0730.1990.tb01959.x
Subject(s) - alice (programming language) , utopia , dream , repetition (rhetorical device) , nonsense , literature , alice and bob , art , philosophy , art history , linguistics , psychology , biochemistry , chemistry , neuroscience , gene
In this paper we study the ways in which Alice in Wonderland simultaneously reaffirms and transgresses the Utopian structure through the consideration of the three basic productive modes of Utopia: the games, the language, and the dream which are essential to the Utopian generic structure as a whole. Alice , we claim, constitutes an insecure form on the very limits of the literary production, and as such, it hovers between sense and nonsense, repetition and difference.