Alice's Adventures in Wonderland--published 150 years ago in 1865--is a book many of us love and feel we know well. But it turns out we have only scratched the surface. Scholar David Day has spent many years down the rabbit hole of this children's classic and has emerged with a revelatory new view of its contents. What we have here, he brilliantly and persuasively argues, is a complete classical education in coded form--Carroll's gift to his "wonder child" Alice Liddell.
In two continuous commentaries, woven around the complete text of the novel for ease of cross-reference on every page, David Day reveals the many layers of teaching, concealed by manipulation of language, that are carried so lightly in the beguiling form of a fairy tale. These layers relate directly to Carroll's interest in philosophy, history, mathematics, classics, poetry, spiritualism and even to his love of music--both sacred and profane. His novel is a memory palace, given to Alice as the great gift of an education. It was delivered in coded form because in that age, it was a gift no girl would be permitted to receive in any other way.
Day also shows how a large number of the characters in the book are based on real Victorians. Wonderland, he shows, is a veritable "Who's Who" of Oxford at the height of its power and influence in the Victorian Age.
There is so much to be found behind the imaginary characters and creatures that inhabit the pages of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. David Day's warm, witty and brilliantly insightful guide--beautifully designed and stunningly illustrated throughout in full colour--will make you marvel at the book as never before.
0 有用 bks 2016-02-12 20:29:44
印刷排版画面精美,适合收藏。本书作者从分析LewisCaroll的生平出发,试图像读者一一分析爱丽丝梦游仙境那里面的内涵。读起来确实很有趣,但是有些理解不禁让人怀疑,是作者的过度解读还是自己的孤陋寡闻。按照DavidADay的描述来看,比起让Lewis Caroll直接承认窗帘就是蓝色的,他宁愿承认之后的那些解释都是他很久以前就想好的吧。
0 有用 bks 2016-02-12 20:29:44
印刷排版画面精美,适合收藏。本书作者从分析LewisCaroll的生平出发,试图像读者一一分析爱丽丝梦游仙境那里面的内涵。读起来确实很有趣,但是有些理解不禁让人怀疑,是作者的过度解读还是自己的孤陋寡闻。按照DavidADay的描述来看,比起让Lewis Caroll直接承认窗帘就是蓝色的,他宁愿承认之后的那些解释都是他很久以前就想好的吧。