By Bernard M. Patten
In this new angle to analyzing Alice, the fruit of ten years of study, Dr. Bernard M. Patten indicates that Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, fused his ardour for good judgment, arithmetic, and video games along with his love of phrases and nonsense tales to supply a multifaceted, intricately established paintings of literature. Patten offers a chapter-by-chapter skeleton key to Alice, which meticulously demonstrates how its a number of episodes demonstrate Dodgson’s profound wisdom of the foundations of transparent pondering, casual and formal good judgment, symbolic common sense, and human nature.
As Patten makes transparent, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, faraway from being simply an unique children’s e-book, is extra advanced and deeply reflective of Dodgson’s personality than it can look. by means of making an attempt to appreciate its deeper layers, either young ones and adults may perhaps make the most of this masterful story by way of studying to imagine higher and, alongside the way in which, having fun.
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