Alice Through the Looking-Glass
A Companion
Published on 16. August 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
516 pages
978-1-80079-984-4 (ISBN)
Description
«This volume is colossal in all senses: most obviously - at over 500 pages - in its sheer physical heft, but most importantly in its ambition, scope and achievement. It brings an unparalleled range of approaches to bear on Carroll's neglected sequel and in doing so marks the arrival of an exciting new wave of Carrollian scholarship and enquiry. A comprehensive and illuminating companion to Looking-Glass and its author, it is also an exemplar of everything that collaborative, transdisciplinary scholarship can offer.»
(Kiera Vaclavik, Professor of Children's Literature and Childhood Culture, Queen Mary University of London)
«This impeccably edited volume with its impressive assemblage of contributors addresses a diverse array of topics: the creation, illustration, translation and commercialization of the world beyond the mirror; discussions philosophical, psychological and theological; studies on logic and linguistics; and, fittingly for a nonsense classic, speculative examinations of the flora and fauna of the Looking-Glass World. This stimulating collection of essays is a timely appreciation of a literary masterwork too long overshadowed by its elder Wonderland sibling.»
(Brian Sibley, Chair of The Lewis Carroll Society)
«It is spring-loaded with surprises and fun, excellent writing, and engaging new ideas on a topic that has been waiting for exactly this. If we are to have the obligatory mirror imagery for talking about Looking-Glss, consider this Companion to be a disco ball, flashing with numerous facets and inviting us to get up and join the dance.»
(Stephanie Lovett, Knight Letter, Vol. III/13, No. 113, Fall 2024)
This book offers a truly interdisciplinary exploration of the polymathic influences that shaped Through the Looking-Glass, the lesser explored sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It explores the work's diverse historical intellectual influences as well as its kaleidoscopic afterlives, including scholars from the history of science, logic, philosophy, theology, literature, popular and visual culture, and translation studies as well as practitioners in business, data science, writing, and visual arts. The collection also offers insights into the minds of those who adapt, pastiche, or translate the Looking-Glass with an original poem, four new Jabberwockies, and an Italian translation of Looking-Glass's iconic poem. This collection thus encourages us to re-evaluate the intellectual scope and place in society of this work.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
86 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
759 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80079-984-4 (9781800799844)
Schweitzer Classification
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08/2024
1st Edition
Peter Lang Verlag
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08/2024
1st Edition
Peter Lang Verlag
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Persons
Franziska E. Kohlt is a scholar of comparative literature, history of science, and science communication. She is a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Leeds and the Inaugural Carrollian Fellow of the University of Southern California. She holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford, where she explored the shared histories of Victorian psychology and fantastic literature. She has published extensively on the life and works of Lewis Carroll, Victorian science, and childhood cultures.
Justine Houyaux is a researcher and doctoral candidate at the Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Traduction et en Interpretation at the University of Liège, where her research focuses on culture-specific elements in the French translations of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the prosopography of Carroll's Interwar translators, and the Surrealist reception of Carroll's works. She recently edited the annotated Alice au pays des merveilles : Traduction et illustrations de René Bour (2023).
Content
Contents: Natural History - Laurence Talairach: Fabulous <<creetures>>: Lewis Carroll's Fantastic Zoo in Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There - Brittani Allen: Through the Looking-Glass and <<Bruno's Revenge>>: Language, Nonhumans, and the Environment - Paul Fagan and Michelle Witen: Live Flowers and Fabulous Monsters: Nonhuman Life and Extinction in Through the Looking-Glass - Natural Philosophy - Franziska E. Kohlt: Through Magic Glasses: Optics as Edifying Entertainment in Victorian Culture - Tom McLeish: Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald, and the Poetry, Prophecy, and Imagination of Science - Nicholas Schilero: Goedel, Einstein, Carroll: Parallels and Crossovers - Religion and Spirituality - Karen Gardiner: <<Must a name mean something?>>: Theological Evolution in Through the Looking-Glass Expressed through Victorian Broad Church Philology - Joshua Rawleigh: Through the Looking-Glass Darkly: The Mirror Theology of Alice's Adventures - Josephine Gabelman: Faith Through the Looking-Glass: A Postmodern Homily - Celia Brown: The Influence of Francis Bacon and John Dee on Carroll's Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There - Psychology - Hayley Flynn: Mirrors of the Mind - Ellen Schaefer-Salins: The Looking-Glass Self and Other Looking-Glass Inspired Psychological and Sociological Theories - Nick Coates and Ned Colville: The Alice Code: Looking-Glass Thinking for Innovators - Logic and Language - Eric Gerlach: Aristotle, Alice, and a Pair of Queens: The Looking-Glass, Opposites, and Aristotle's Logic - Bas Savenije: <<Which is to be master?>> Humpty Dumpty and the Philosophy of Language - Publishing, Adapting, and Commercialization - Justine Houyaux: Through the Surrealist Kaleidoscope: Louis Aragon's <<Lewis Carroll en 1931>> (An Annotated Translation) - Amanda Lastoria: Reflections on Book Publishing Strategies: A Guide to Types of Editions of the Alice Books - Catherine Richards and Clare Imholtz: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Henry Savile Clarke Did There - Visualizing Looking-Glass - Amy de Nobriga: Unseen Narratives: Data Visualization through the Looking-Glass - Adam Paxman: The Eggbound Heart - Illustrating Looking-Glass - Jade Dillon Craig: <<She Haunts Me Phantomwise>>: Illustrating Mirrors and Reflections in Lewis Carroll's Alice Books - Nilce M. Pereira: Illustrations and Illustrators of <<Looking-Glass House>> - Adriana Peliano: Alicescope of Alicedelic Alicinations - Literary Reflections: Before Carroll - Francesca Arnavas: Lewis Carroll's Looking-Glass: In between Fairy Tale Magic Mirror and Victorian Glassworld - Afrinul Haque Khan: Through the Prism of the Looking-Glass: Inversion, Emancipation, and Power - Literary Reflections: Beyond Carroll - Guilherme Magri da Rocha and Cleide Antonia Rapucci: Modernists through the Looking-Glass: Exploring Radical and Challenging Modernist Books for Children - Ann Martin: Reflections, Reversals, and Doubles: Lewis Carroll's Photographic Aesthetics in Dorothy L. Sayers's Hangman's Holiday - Luxin Yin: Mirrors and Windows for Children: Grace Lin's Tale of Childhood Suffering and Growth in Where the Mountain Meets the Moon - Popular Culture and Intertextuality - Rebecca Bevington: <<I gave her one way out>>: The Turing Test as Carrollian Metaphor in Alex Garland's Ex Machina (2013) - Brigid Cherry: <<There's really only this mirror>>: The Looking-Glass in Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's Lost Girls - Rebecca Gibson: Through the Broken, Melted Looking-Glass: Examining the Mirror Universe of the Matrix with Regard to Carrollian Metaphors - Jabberwocky - Kit Kelen: <<Jabberwocky>> - The Impossible Poem Demanding Translation - Anna Kerchy: Jabberwock vs Snark: Imagetextual Monsters and the Struggle with Semiosis in Through the Looking-Glass and <<The Hunting of the Snark>> - Bjoern Sundmark: <<It's all in some language I don't know>>: The Translation History of <<Jabberwocky>> - Pierfrancesco La Mura: A New Italian Translation of the <<Jabberwocky>> - Poetry - Adam Roberts: Jabb(re)work-y - Matthew Demakos: Tweedledum's Commentary: In Appreciation of Lewis Carroll's <<The Walrus and the Carpenter>> - Jan Susina: The Fishy Riddles of Through the Looking-Glass.