ENG 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Anthropomorphism, Lewis Carroll, Literary Nonsense
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1864 = wrote and drew pictures and gave to alice for christmas. Dean of dodgson"s school = dean henry liddell. He had 3 daughters: lorina, edith, alice. Didactic = to teach a lesson (moral), pious instruction- religious - good behavior. Derived from news - italian = new story. *parody- and imitation of the style, of a particular writer, artist, genre, with deliberate exaggera- tion for comic effect. Page 16 in alice in wonderland - parody (footnote 8) To overturn or overthrow from the foundation to convert or corrupt- to make something weaker or less effective. Anthropomorphism: attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or an ob- ject. Form of word play that suggests 2 or more meanings and by exploiting multiple mean- ings of words similar sounding words for comedic effect. Page 21 - alice in wonderland- dry story -pun. Parody of poems = can"t remember her lessons - keep subverting them.
