![]() Finally, I will suggest how this contrast supports the possibility that the fantasy structures of the two Alice Books mirror each other. ![]() Further, I will demonstrate how these literary reversals help to create Alice's oxymoronic delight and confusion in Looking Glass Land by contrasting them with the literary materials used to produce like effects in Wonderland. ![]() My purpose here is to locate this tradition, particularly as it developed in the Looking Glass Book for children, in Carroll's fantasy and to demonstrate how it functions to introduce children's literature as a ground of reversal that works together with the more obvious physical reversals. Yet a survey of the critical responses to this fantasy reveals that Alice's passage through the physical looking glass and its attendant reversals have received a great deal of critical attention, while Alice's simultaneous passage through the tradition of the Looking Glass Book has been virtually ignored. ![]() ![]() The tradition of the Looking Glass Book plays an important structural and thematic role in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. ![]()
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