Nonsense Against Sorrow: A Phenomenological Study of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice' Books

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Holbrook draws on Carroll's own letters, as well as the work of 20th-century psychoanalysts, to examine what the books reveal about the author's own desires and conflicts and his relationships with those around him.

The book includes Included four photographs taken by Carroll himself and two of his drawings.

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What kind of a man was Lewis Carroll, and what motivated him to write the "Alice" books? David Holbrook draws on Carroll's correspondence, as well as the work of 20th century psychoanalysts, to step inside the looking glass of Alice, as it were, and see what the books reveal to us about the desires and conflicts of Carroll himself and about his relationships with those around him. The eternal freshness of Lewis Carroll's "Alice" books is evidence that there is much more in them than has as yet been examined and explained by the many critics and biographers who have written about his work. There is an enigma here - a man who led a somewhat dull life but who produced these stories that are so fascinating that they have become popular all over the world. Holbrook believes that the clue to their enigmatic appeal lies in the unconscious meanings that the books have for us. He sees the origins of these in the inner preoccupations of the author who suffered a trauma in infancy, and discusses this in detail, bringing in the work of psychoanalysts such as Phyllis Greenacre and D.W. Winnicott in particular. The book is a journey of discovery into the inner world of a great genius. It contains four photographs taken by Carroll, two of his own drawings, one by his friend Gertrude Thomson, and one by John Tenniel.


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Item number (ASIN): 1871871492
Author: David Holbrook
ISBN: 1871871492
Item Dimensions: 234 x 156 (centimeters)
Languages: English x English x English
Manufacturer: Open Gate Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Package Dimensions: 47 x 626 x 926 (hundredths-inches)
Publication Date: September, 2002
Publisher: Open Gate Press
Binding: Paperback

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