Literary Technique: Paradox Nov 19, 2009
A famous example of paradox is Through the Looking Glass (1871) by Lewis Carroll, the pen name of Charles Dodgson ( 1832-1898). The entire book is a mirror of the "real" world" through the "looking glass" world. When Alice goes into the Looking Glass world, she has trouble getting places by heading towards them. When she walks toward a place, she finds that she is actually walking away. One of the characters advises Alice to walk away from the place she wants to go, and finds "It succeeded... (Suite101.com)
How Charles Darwin changed the way we see Nov 15, 2009
He mingled with artists on the voyage of HMS Beagle, collaborated with famed photographer Oscar Rejlander to make his pictures, and corresponded with many painters and photographers, such as Joseph Wolf and Lewis Carroll. Darwin's Camera provides the first examination ever of these relationships and their effect on Darwin's work, and how Darwin, in turn, shaped the history of art. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Illustrations of classic childrens book are now on display Nov 4, 2009
The 45 large-scale digital prints are based on the book by Lewis Carroll ... These images also appear in the book Lewis Carroll s Alice s Adventures In Wonderland: Illustrated By Maggie Taylor (2008, Modernbook Gallery). (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
'Alice in Wonderland' is subject of Tarble exhibition and film showings Oct 27, 2009
The 45 large-scale digital prints are based on the book by Lewis Carroll ... Deemed A memorably bizarre screen version of Lewis Carroll s novel Alice s Adventures in Wonderland , the film is fitting for the Halloween season ... These images also appear in the book Lewis Carroll s Alice s Adventures In Wonderland: Illustrated By Maggie Taylor (2008, Modernbook Gallery). (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Rosella Howe, 97; feminist, poet loved English language Oct 23, 2009
She was also a scholar of Lewis Carroll, and traveled to meetings of the society in his name. Mother loved his word-play, said her son, Edward H. of Jamaica Plain. (Boston Globe)
Finding beautiful people Oct 9, 2009
He has written a screenplay titled Phantasmagoria: the Visions of Lewis Carroll, based on the ''Jekyll-and-Hyde nature'' of the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Manson also plans to direct and star in the film but the project has been stalled by other distractions since 2007. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
All the golden gossip from the British Science Festival Sep 8, 2009
Such as mathematician and Alice in Wonderland author, Lewis Carroll; Brave New World author Aldous Huxley and - er - Harry Secombe. Aldous' grandfather, the polymath Thomas Huxley, once spoke at the science festival in 1860. (BBC News -- Science)
Local theater companies approach a new season Aug 28, 2009
Drawn from the Lewis Carroll novel, it runs March 24-April 3 in the Studio Theater. Individual tickets are $22. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Photographers' work separated by time - and visual style Jul 24, 2009
One is by Lewis Carroll. Many of the pictures are allegorical studies of the madonna-and-child sort. (Boston Globe)
'Alice': Don't be late for this important date! Jul 17, 2009
Thirty-nine students will perform in the play, which is an adaptation of the Lewis Carroll classic "Through the Looking Glass.". The production wraps up the six-week summer camp where students age 8 to 14 "learned everything about the stage," said co-director Tim O'Brien. (Yuma Daily Sun, AZ)
Community theater delights this season Jul 10, 2009
Buchanan's Tin Shop Theatre is presenting a run of "Alice in Wonderland," adapted by Anne Coulter Martens from the original work by Lewis Carroll. Directed by Sarah Dickey and Kelly Carlin, the story follows Alice, in her quest to get home from Wonderland. (Niles Star, MI)
Letter: Beware of Alice Jul 3, 2009
In Lewis Carroll s Alice in Wonderland, one finds this conversation. The March Hare and the Mad Hatter (together): No room. (Cambridge Chronicle, MA)
Noted Southern California Art Dealer Brings His Passion and His Stable of Lowbrow/Pop Culture Artists to Dallas May 13, 2009
" Her award-winning illustrations have been recognized as being among "the best and most cutting-edge" in the country. Von Buhler is the author of the popular children's "The Cat Who Wouldn't Come Inside," published by Houghton Mifflin. In the celebrity-written benefit book she illustrated a story by . CVB Space, von Buhler's art studio in Manhattan's Meatpacking District, has been featured in , , (starring , , and ) and (starring ).MIGUEL PAREDESWhen you overlay colors and stories, no one is... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Atwood rallies anti-Tory votes by backing Bloc May 8, 2009
If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there, he told a partisan crowd at a rally in Edmundston, N.B., borrowing a line from Lewis Carroll. Without a road map or a plan, don't take the Canadian economy for a ride. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
Changing Places Mar 30, 2009
Lewis Carroll would be proud of you. No sooner has Susan s head burst through the church roof than she is captured by the Army and removed to a secure facility, where, to her dismay, she is stored as a potential weapon of war a rare female monster, according to the general in charge of the program, who may be too young to remember Bette Davis. (New Yorker)
Book Review | 'A Strange Eventful History': Ellen Terry and Henry Irving: Co-stars in a life on the English stage Mar 28, 2009
The Terry parents were traveling players, and Ellen made her London debut at the age of 9 as Mamillius in "The Winter's Tale." The Reverend Charles Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, was sitting in the audience and became an obsessive, lifelong fan. She had a voice that was half whisper, half sigh, and she spoke Shakespeare's lines, her son later said, with such naturalness that it was as if they were something she had heard just that morning. (International Herald Tribune)
Flapjacks, free throws, flea market Mar 8, 2009
Stage III Community Theatre presents Lewis Carroll: Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast, by Marilyn Ann Hetzel and Margaret Lee Potts. This family-friendly adaptation of the Alice in Wonderland stories is suitable for all ages. (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
Lewis Carroll Life and Works Mar 1, 2009
Brief biography and works of Lewis Carroll, famous for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll was a 19th century English author of children's stories and poems ... Early Life of Lewis Carroll. (Suite101.com)
The writing's on the wall Feb 27, 2009
In 1864, Lewis Carroll wrote his most famous work for Alice Liddell. Aged 16, Winston Churchill wrote to his mother Lady Randolph Churchill. (BBC News -- UK)
