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  • Essay / Alice Books by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - 1567

    Even though more than a century has passed, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland still appeals to new generations of readers, young and old. Among other reasons, Carroll's tale is explained by his particular work on language and the mass effects it produces in the minds of children and adults, creating a remarkable literary work. Alice Books by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), known as Lewis Carroll, appeared at a time when sentimental stories and conformation to moral and aesthetic values ​​were fashionable. The Alice books are considered one of the most important examples of the genre of literary nonsense, its development and narrative structure. have had a huge influence, especially in the fantasy genre. At the same time, Lewis Carroll published other works and speeches in Mathematics and Logics, but none of them were as successful as Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Carroll was, with Edward Lear, one of the pioneers of the absurd genre; they were responsible for the development of intelligent children's literature. When we talk about Alice and her adventures in Wonderland, people think of a strange fairy tale with lots of symbols, written especially for children, but the paradox is that the book was written and dedicated to everything the world. Alice in Wonderland represents a story of a connected world. events that are represented to the reader in the form of written words, therefore it is a narrative and has its origins in the fantasy genre. Fantasy has the richest literary tradition of all forms of genre fiction, as it is considered the progenitor from which other forms developed. The fantasy genre has a habit of taking real-life situations...... middle of paper ......(like for children) involving fantastical forces and beings (like fairies, wizards and the elves) - also called a fairy tale; a story in which improbable events lead to a happy ending (Merriam-Webster online dictionary). Originally, the term fairy tale comes from France. In 1697, Madame d'Aulony began publishing volumes of fantastic tales under the collective title: Les contes des fairy. [Ashliman, 2004] French fairy tales were the first to be collected and written down. Another definition provided by the Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory: “A fairy tale is a prose story about the fortunes and misfortunes of a hero or heroine who, after experiencing various adventures of more or less supernatural, lives happily ever after. Magic, charms, disguises and spells are some of the major ingredients of such stories (/…/)” [Cuddon,1998].