Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871) and Carlo Collodi's Le Avventure di Pinocchio (1883) are among the most influential classics of children's literature. Firmly rooted in their respective British and Italian national cultures, the Alice and Pinocchio stories connected to a worldwide audience almost like folktales and fairy tales and have become fixtures of postmodernism. Although they come from radically different political and social backgrounds, the texts share surprising similarities. This comparative reading explores their imagery…mehr
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871) and Carlo Collodi's Le Avventure di Pinocchio (1883) are among the most influential classics of children's literature. Firmly rooted in their respective British and Italian national cultures, the Alice and Pinocchio stories connected to a worldwide audience almost like folktales and fairy tales and have become fixtures of postmodernism. Although they come from radically different political and social backgrounds, the texts share surprising similarities. This comparative reading explores their imagery and history, and discusses them in the broader context of British and Italian children's stories.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Laura Tosi is a professor of English literature at the University Ca' Foscari in Venice, Italy. Her research is in Elizabethan drama and children's literature. She has published works on literary fairy tales and adaptation, and co-edited the first history of English-language children's literature written in Italian.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Part One. Theories, Choices and Contexts 1. Alice Meets Pinocchio: Parallel Readings, National Stereotypes and Cultural Associations 2. Books, Canons and Characters: Pinocchio in Wonderland and Alice in Tuscany 3. Carlo and Charles: Italy in the Age of Pinocchio, England in the Age of Alice Part Two. Origins: Folktale, Fairy-Tale and Fantasy deleteTraditions 4. Pinocchio as fiaba, Alice as Fairy-Tale: Folktale and Fairy-Tale Traditions 5. Fantasy and Form in Alice and Pinocchio Part Three. New Journeys: Postmodernist deleteExperiments with Alice and Pinocchio and Parallel Genre Readings in Empire Fictions 6. The Postmodernist Journeys of Alice and Pinocchio: Adventures in Transnational and Transtextual Identities 7. Childhood, School and Empire in Italy and the UK: Hughes and De Amicis, Henty and Salgari Appendix: "Strange Meeting in Wonder-Tuscany" by Peter Hunt Chapter Notes Works Cited Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Part One. Theories, Choices and Contexts 1. Alice Meets Pinocchio: Parallel Readings, National Stereotypes and Cultural Associations 2. Books, Canons and Characters: Pinocchio in Wonderland and Alice in Tuscany 3. Carlo and Charles: Italy in the Age of Pinocchio, England in the Age of Alice Part Two. Origins: Folktale, Fairy-Tale and Fantasy deleteTraditions 4. Pinocchio as fiaba, Alice as Fairy-Tale: Folktale and Fairy-Tale Traditions 5. Fantasy and Form in Alice and Pinocchio Part Three. New Journeys: Postmodernist deleteExperiments with Alice and Pinocchio and Parallel Genre Readings in Empire Fictions 6. The Postmodernist Journeys of Alice and Pinocchio: Adventures in Transnational and Transtextual Identities 7. Childhood, School and Empire in Italy and the UK: Hughes and De Amicis, Henty and Salgari Appendix: "Strange Meeting in Wonder-Tuscany" by Peter Hunt Chapter Notes Works Cited Index
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