The Lewis Carroll Society of North America’s newest blog entry is all about Contrariwise! This blog doesn’t regularly deal with certain questions (italics mine, as was the rest of that sentence.) And the new LewisCarroll.org’s FAQs don’t go there. Contrariwise, Mark Burstein usually starts his question-and-answer sessions with: “The answers to the first two questions […]
Archives for March, 2010
No One Expects…
KLeifsen adds this footnote about In the Shadow of the Dreamchild:
I think it’s stupid that this book exists… A lot of this sounds like speculation and heresy.
Heresy?
Where’s the Spanish Inquisition when you really need it?
Wilful Myth-Blindness II: "What on earth is Robert McCrum On about?"
Well, didn’t think we’d be doing two of these in a week, but how can we pass this one up. The respected journo Robert McCrum reviews Jenny Woolf’s book The Mystery of Lewis Carroll in the Guardian, and concludes…what exactly? That Carroll has been misunderstood and somewhat abused, as Ms Woolf suggests? That a re-assessment […]
Wilful Myth-Blindness 1: "Alice I Never Was"
We’re going to be doing an occasional (probably very occasional) series called “Wilful Myth-Blindness”, where we look at examples of writing that determinedly re-states the old Carroll Myths, or indeed any other tired old Myths, as if the evidence to the contrary just wasn’t there. To kick this off, here’s Melanie Benjamin’s 2010 historical novel […]
The Pope to Alice
No, not a new and surprising letter unearthed in the archives, just another glorious chapter in the history of Google Translator. In the Shadow of the Dreamchild is being published in Italy, and someone sent Contrariwise an article about it that had appeared in “Lankelot“. The article, originally in Italian, had been done over by […]
Book Review: "The Logic of Alice"
The following is reprinted from the Daresbury Chronicle (ISSN 1757-3912), March 2010, edited by Mr. Keith Wright. Dr. Sherry L. Ackerman wrote the review: Bernard Patten’s The Logic of Alice: Clear Thinking in Wonderland left me scratching my head. To be honest, I still haven’t decided whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing. […]