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What Art Is Like is a comic, serious inquiry into the nature of art. It provides welcome relief from prevailing modes of explaining art that involve definitions, philosophical claims, and critical judgments put forth by third parties. Scrapping all such chatter, Miguel Tamen's aphoristic lark with aesthetic questions proceeds by taking its technical vocabulary only from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. According to Tamen, it would be ridiculous to think of poems or paintings or films or any variety of artistic production as distinct from other things in the world, including people. Talking about art should be contiguous with talking about many other relevant and important matters. Tamen offers a series of analogies and similes to help us imagine these connected experiences. One, taken from the analytical table of contents where the book is writ small, suggests that "understanding a poem is like understanding a cat; neither ever says anything back and you can't keep a conversation with them. All art is like this, but not only art is like this; nature, the past, numbers are also like this." Tamen takes up many central issues in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, including the connection between art and having fuzzy ideas about art, the mistake of imagining that art-decisions are put forth by art-courts where you are both judge and jury, and the notion that what happens with art also happens to you.

Art --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Aesthetics --- Art and philosophy --- Philosophy. --- Analysis, interpretation, appreciation --- Carroll, Lewis, --- Alice --- Testoni, Giampaolo, --- Fairchild, Alice, --- Alicia --- Alice (Fictitious character : Carroll)

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Analysing Lewis Carroll's Alice books in the context of children's literature from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, Ronald Reichertz argues that Carroll's striking originality was the result of a fusion of his narrative imagination and formal and thematic features from earlier children's literature. Drawing examples from a wide range of children's literature Reichertz demonstrates that the Alice books are infused with conventions of and allusions to earlier works and identifies precursors of Carroll's upside-down, looking-glass, and dream vision worlds. Key passages from related books are reprinted in the appendices, making available many hard-to-find examples of early children's literature.

Children's literature, English --- History and criticism. --- Carroll, Lewis, --- Carroll, Lewis --- Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge --- Testoni, Giampaolo, --- Children's literature. Juvenile literature --- English literature --- Sources --- Children's literature [English ] --- History and criticism --- キャロル ルイス

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We live in an age that is witnessing a growing interest in narrative studies, cognitive neuroscientific tools, mind studies and artificial intelligence hypotheses. This book therefore aims to expand the exegesis of Carroll's "Alice" books, aligning them with the current intellectual environment. The theoretical force of this volume lies in the successful encounter between a great book (and all its polysemous ramifications) and a new interpretative point of view, powerful enough to provide a new original contribution, but well grounded enough not to distort the text itself. Moreover, this book is one of the first to offer a complete, thorough analysis of one single text through the theoretical lens of cognitive narratology, and not just as a series of brief examples embedded within a more general discussion. It emphasises in a more direct, effective way the actual novelty and usefulness of the dialogue established between narrative theory and the cognitive sciences. It links specific concepts elaborated in the theory of cognitive narratology with the analysis of the "Alice" books, helping in this way to discuss, question and extend the concepts themselves, opening up new interpretations and practical methods.

Fiction --- Psychological study of literature --- Carroll, Lewis --- Children --- Books and reading for children --- Reading interests of children --- Books and reading --- Carroll, Lewis, --- Testoni, Giampaolo, --- Alice Books. --- Cognitive Narratology. --- Lewis Carroll. --- Unnatural Narratology. --- Books and reading. --- Alice's adventures in Wonderland (Carroll, Lewis) --- Through the looking-glass (Carroll, Lewis) --- 1800-1899 --- Great Britain.

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Carroll, Lewis --- Psychological fiction, English --- Fantasy fiction, English --- Desire in literature --- Logic in literature --- History and criticism --- Carroll, Lewis, --- -Psychological fiction, English --- -English psychological fiction --- English fiction --- English fantasy fiction --- Fantastic fiction, English --- -History and criticism --- Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge --- Testoni, Giampaolo, --- Psychological fiction, English - History and criticism --- Fantasy fiction, English - History and criticism --- Carroll, Lewis, - 1832-1898. - Alice's adventures in Wonderland --- Fantasy fiction, English History and criticism --- CARROLL (LEWIS), 1832-1898 --- ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND --- Desire in literature. --- Logic in literature. --- History and criticism.