November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
670 pages
17h 35m
English

Charles Dodson (pen name: Lewis Carroll) authored several books in which he stripped away intuition and any preconception by manipulating logic, even if it seems like nonsense. Let's look at the literary nonsense in his fiction book, Alice in Wonderland. Dodson often defied common sense by creating an entirely new world through the manipulation of language. The story maintained a balance between sense and nonsense, remaining logical, even though it appeared at times to be completely illogical. For example, as Alice moves within the back-to-front world of Looking-Glass Land, she discovers a book written ...