Creative Curiosity: Study of Alice Character in Lewis Caroll's Adventures of Alice in Wonderland

Sungran Cho

doi:10.21049/ccs.2015.41..299

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author={Sungran Cho},
title={Creative Curiosity: Study of Alice Character in Lewis Caroll's Adventures of Alice in Wonderland},
journal={Cross-Cultural Studies},
issn={1598-0685},
year={2015},
volume={41},
pages={299-320},
doi={10.21049/ccs.2015.41..299}

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AU - Sungran Cho
TI - Creative Curiosity: Study of Alice Character in Lewis Caroll's Adventures of Alice in Wonderland
JO - Cross-Cultural Studies
PY - 2015
VL - 41
IS - null
PB - Center for Cross Culture Studies
SP - 299
EP - 320
SN - 1598-0685
AB - Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland expands scope of Children’s Literature genre by introducing the discourse of pleasure as opposed to that of didactic discipline. Carroll’s narrative is important, not only for children’s literature, but also as a forerunner of post/modernism of James Joyce with its language play and linguistic invention. Its treatment of Alice’s body change follows the motif of body transformation in myth and literature. Comparing “stasis” of Susan Sontag’s character Alice (James) in her play Alice in Bed and “movement” of Carroll’s Alice, this study explores the issues of woman’s alienation and the dichotomy of mobility/immobility in reality and in their literary representations. Focusing on a female child’s double alienation as woman and child, I argue Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a counter-narrative of alternative bildungsroman. Alice gains her subjectivity through her adventure by power of language and story-telling. Through representation of the dream/adventure of two desiring sisters, Carroll’s narrative exhibits subversion of social order and emergence of new order of “chaosmos” out of chaos. As a method of study, this study traces genealogy of “curiosity” in myth and literature as a motivating force that triggers adventure and argues “creative curiosity” is a dynamic energy propelling Alice’s adventure.
KW - creative curiosity;chaosmos;Lewis Carroll;Alice’s in Wonderland;Susan Sontag;Alice James;Alice in Bed;fluid identity
DO - 10.21049/ccs.2015.41..299
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Sungran Cho. (2015). Creative Curiosity: Study of Alice Character in Lewis Caroll's Adventures of Alice in Wonderland. Cross-Cultural Studies, 41, 299-320.

Sungran Cho. 2015, "Creative Curiosity: Study of Alice Character in Lewis Caroll's Adventures of Alice in Wonderland", Cross-Cultural Studies, vol.41, pp.299-320. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2015.41..299

Sungran Cho "Creative Curiosity: Study of Alice Character in Lewis Caroll's Adventures of Alice in Wonderland" Cross-Cultural Studies 41 pp.299-320 (2015) : 299.

Sungran Cho. Creative Curiosity: Study of Alice Character in Lewis Caroll's Adventures of Alice in Wonderland. 2015; 41 299-320. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2015.41..299

Sungran Cho. "Creative Curiosity: Study of Alice Character in Lewis Caroll's Adventures of Alice in Wonderland" Cross-Cultural Studies 41(2015) : 299-320.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2015.41..299

Sungran Cho. Creative Curiosity: Study of Alice Character in Lewis Caroll's Adventures of Alice in Wonderland. Cross-Cultural Studies, 41, 299-320. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2015.41..299

Sungran Cho. Creative Curiosity: Study of Alice Character in Lewis Caroll's Adventures of Alice in Wonderland. Cross-Cultural Studies. 2015; 41 299-320. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2015.41..299

Sungran Cho. Creative Curiosity: Study of Alice Character in Lewis Caroll's Adventures of Alice in Wonderland. 2015; 41 299-320. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2015.41..299

Sungran Cho. "Creative Curiosity: Study of Alice Character in Lewis Caroll's Adventures of Alice in Wonderland" Cross-Cultural Studies 41(2015) : 299-320.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2015.41..299

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