Alice in Wonderland and Utopia

Leah Hadomi; Robert Elbaz

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0730.1990.tb01959.x

Alice in Wonderland and Utopia

Leah Hadomi, Robert Elbaz

Department of Hebrew & Comparative Literature

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In this paper we study the ways in which Alice in Wonderland simultaneously reaffirms and transgresses the Utopian structure through the consideration of the three basic productive modes of Utopia: the games, the language, and the dream which are essential to the Utopian generic structure as a whole. Alice, we claim, constitutes an insecure form on the very limits of the literary production, and as such, it hovers between sense and nonsense, repetition and difference.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	136-153
Number of pages	18
Journal	Orbis Litterarum
Volume	45
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0730.1990.tb01959.x
State	Published - Mar 1990

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