Dystopian Structures in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Dystopian Structures in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Summary/Abstract: In this essay, I shall analyse the structures of space in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, a novel which alongside George MacDonald’s stories, constitutes one of the cornerstones of this genre of literature. Despite the fact that the two volumes on Alice have been extensively commented on from the linguistic problematic of the nonsense, studies treating the imaginary and narrative structure of space in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland are fewer in number and belong mainly to the researchers who for years on end had tried to define fantasy literature, contributing to its coming out of the area of theoretical anonymity in which it laid.

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