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"Alice" for Adolescents

1970/11/01 by Michael A. D'Ambrosio · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Themes in Literature Analysis #Alice (programming language) #Adventure #Privilege (computing) #Reading (process) #Meaning (existential) #Class (philosophy) #Literature #Psychology #History #Psychoanalysis #Art #Art history #Linguistics #Philosophy #Epistemology #Law #Political science

paper · doi:10.2307/813515

openalex publication_date 1970/11/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2025/11/06

Abstract

44T HAT'S a baby book! read it ten years ago! You must be kidding! These were just a few of the reactions from my senior class when I told them that we were going to read Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Nevertheless, I endeavored to jump into the rabbit hole, regardless of the consequences, in an attempt to explain that they were about to have the privilege of reading a sophisticated adult novel which would have greater meaning to them if they approached it with a mature attitude. So with books

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