Some of the most lastingly delightful children’s books in English are « Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland » and « Through the Looking-Glass ». Here are what Albert Baugh write about them in « A Literary reputation for England »:
« compiled by an Oxford that is eccentric don amuse his little girlfriends, those two world-famous books will be the on top of that memorials for the Victorian love of nonsense. With a lengthy tradition, nevertheless they shot through with an excellent distorted logic (with their author was a professional mathematician and logician) that is inimitable and unique. inside them are aspects of satire and parody which connect them »
A story could be told either by among the characters, or by an external narrator. To define by whom the narration is made is always to define the true point of view that the writer has chosen for his story.
In « Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland » the narrator does not introduce himself as a character.
Lewis Carroll uses 3rd person narrative. Yet, everything into the story sometimes appears, heard or thought happens which she cannot sense, or in places where this woman is not present. This type of point of view is known as omniscience this is certainly selective that is the writer knows everything, but only through one character’s consciousness. Continuer la lecture →