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Instructors: PD Dr. Sissy Christine Helff
Event type:
Seminar
Org-unit: Dept. 02 - Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies
Displayed in timetable as:
Literary Genres
Subject:
Crediting for:
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Literature:
You may want to get hold of the following texts:
The Annotated Alice by L. Carroll edited by Martin Gardner, ISBN 9780140289299
Alice in Bed by Susan Sontag, ISBN 978-0374523855
Wonderland 1by Tommy Kovac and illustrated by Sonny Liew, ISBN 978-1593620394
Alice in Wormland by Dorothy Hewett, ISBN 958780110 or print the page http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poems-book/alice-in-wormland-0330000
Alice I have been by Melanie Benjamin, ISBN9780385344142
Further Grading Information:
All other texts required for the seminar will be collected in a class pack that will be available at the beginning of term.
Please make sure that you attend the first meeting!
Official Course Description:
Lewis Carroll’s fantastic story Alice in Wonderland (1865) is considered a children’s classic all around the world. It might be due to the book’s miraculous setting and its vividly portrayed characters that Alice and the White Rabbit have found and still find their way into the bedrooms of our very young and of those grown-ups who still enjoy being intrigued by Alice’s magical world. The great many variations of the Alice in Wonderland fantasy circulating in an increasingly globalised memory market bring home to us that some stories obviously never reach an expiry date. Such an observation confirms what Paula Hamilton and Graham Huggan have postulated for folk legends, namely that the many interpretations of old stories point not just to the durability of a legend or tale, but also to its continuing profitability as a global fantasy circulating within an increasingly globalised cultural industry. Following this train of thought, this class seeks to scrutinize adoptions of Lewis Carroll’s classic in literature, comics, film, computer game and theatre.
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