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Behind the Looking-Glass - Reflections on the Myth of Lewis Carroll (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Behind the Looking-Glass - Reflections on the Myth of Lewis Carroll (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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"Behind the Looking-Glass" offers a fresh perspective in the
ongoing, contemporary deconstruction of the Carroll Myth. Through
rigorous examination of numerous myths that have been hitherto
unquestioned, Ackerman skilfully positions Lewis Carroll in the
theological and philosophical contexts of his time. She uncovers a
Carroll whose radical religio-philosophical counter-response to
patriarchal materialism moved his intellectual journey,
intentionally or otherwise, deep into the waters of mysticism. The
image of Carroll as a dreary Victorian conservative gives way to
that of a man with wide intellectual parameters, an inquiring mind
and bold, far-sighted vision. "Behind the Looking-Glass"
demonstrates how nineteenth century currents of spiritualism,
theosophy and occult philosophy co-mingled with Carroll's interest
in revived Platonism and Neoplatonism, showcasing the "Alice" and
"Sylvie and Bruno" books as unique points of conjunction between
Carroll's intellect and spirituality. The scholarship in this work,
while rigorous, is softly mixed with the kind of academic frivolity
that Carroll himself might have enjoyed. Ackerman exposes a Carroll
who, having lost belief in the theological and mythological master
plots of earlier eras, turned toward the imaginative fiction of
wonderlands rife with philosophical content in response to his
instinctive hunger for cosmic coherence and existential order.
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