Fabulous Adventures of Alice with Fashion, Science, and Pinocchio

The three scholarly monographs published between 2017 and 2020 by Laura White, Laura Tosi and Peter Hunt, and Kiera Vaclavik, are recent contributions to Lewis Carroll scholarship. They belong to what Michael Heyman calls “the sense school” of nonsense literary criticism in so far as they attribute a specific agenda, a systematic structure, a decipherable message, and a homogenised reading to the Alice tales (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass). Each re-explores a well-known children’s classic from fresh new perspectives by relying on interdisciplinary methodologies, mingling the literary historical approach with insights of critical fashion studies, evolutionary biology, and comparative cross-cultural analysis (translation studies), respectively. Like adaptations, these critical theoretical interpretations of the Alice books are in a constant dialogue with one another within a Genettian transtextual network of multimodal narratives.

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Strong-Ties and Weak-Ties Rationalities: Toward an Expanded Network Theory

Review of General Psychology ◽

10.1177/1089268020916438 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 134-143

Author(s):

Louise Sundararajan

Keyword(s):

Network Theory ◽

Cultural Sensitivity ◽

Evolutionary Biology ◽

Cultural Psychology ◽

Group Processes ◽

Cultural Analysis ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Weak Ties ◽

Human Society ◽

Strong Ties

This article introduces the expanded network theory and demonstrates the heuristic value of its construct of strong-ties and weak-ties rationalities. This construct is derived from the network theory of Granovetter and corroborated with evolutionary biology and psychological studies on group processes. This construct has wide-ranging implications and applications for cultural and cross-cultural psychology. It informs our efforts toward cultural sensitivity in theory and research design and offers a new tool for cultural analysis. In particular, it can serve as a useful framework to investigate cultures in transition in the globalizing era. Insights into strong-ties and weak-ties rationalities may even contribute to shaping the future of the human society.

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IDENTITY CRISIS IN LEWIS CARROLL’S “ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS”

INFERENCE: Journal of English Language Teaching ◽

10.30998/inference.v3i3.5729 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 229

Author(s):

Andreas Tano ◽

Gustaman Saragih

Keyword(s):

Personality Disorder ◽

Literary Criticism ◽

Psychosocial Development ◽

Defense Mechanisms ◽

Qualitative Method ◽

Defense Mechanism ◽

Identity Crisis ◽

Lewis Carroll ◽

Childhood Onset ◽

Looking Glass

This research aims at showing the connection between the characters’ reality and fantasy on identity crisis in Alice through the Looking-Glass novel by Lewis Carroll. Thus, the conducted research was analyzed using qualitative method with the approach of psychoanalytical literary criticism: Psychoanalysis by Freud as well as the theory of Psychosocial Development by Erikson to seek the identity crisis of the character Alice. As the conclusion of the research; 1) Alice’s ‘ego’ cannot manage her ‘id’ which is difficult to be gratified in reality that triggers Alice overreact her defense mechanisms; 2) Alice’s fantasy works as a defense mechanism which is caused by her unfulfilled wishes in reality; 3) It is revealed that Alice experiences identity crisis at the phase of autonomy versus doubt and shame as well as initiative versus guilt which influences her behaviors, resulting Childhood Onset schizophrenic (COS) personality disorder.Keywords: identity crisis; psychoanalysis; interpretation of dreams; personality disorder; schizophrenia

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