Although more than a century has passed, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland continues to inspire new generations of readers young and old. Among many other reasons, Carroll's tale can be explained by his particular work on language and the mass effects it produces in the minds of children and adults, thus creating a remarkable literary work. Alice Books by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), known as Lewis Carroll appeared in a period when sentimental stories and adaptation to moral and aesthetic values were fashionable. The Alice books are considered one of the most important examples of the literary nonsense genre, its development and narrative structure have been enormously influential, especially in the fantasy genre. At the same time, Lewis Carroll published other works and speeches in Mathematics and Logic, but none of them were as successful as Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Carroll was, together with Edward Lear, the precursor of the nonsense genre, responsible for the development of intelligent literature for children. When we talk about Alice and her adventures in Wonderland we think of a strange fairy tale full of symbols, written specifically for children, but the paradox is that the book was written and dedicated to everyone. Alice in Wonderland represents a story of things connected events that are represented to the reader in the form of written words, therefore it is a narrative and has its origins in the Fantasy genre. Fantasy has the richest literary tradition of all forms of genre fiction, as it is considered the ancestor from which other forms developed. The fantasy genre has a habit of taking real-life situations... center-of-the-paper... (as for children) involving fantastic forces and beings (such as fairies, wizards, and goblins) - also called fairy tales. ; a story in which unlikely events lead to a happy ending (Merriam-Webster online dictionary). Originally the term fairy tale came from France. In 1697 Madame d'Aulony began publishing volumes of fantasy stories under the collective title: Les contes des fees (Fairy Tales). [Ashliman, 2004] French fairy tales were the first to be collected and written down. Another definition provided by the Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory: “The fairy tale is a prose story about the fortunes and misfortunes of a hero or heroine who, after having experienced various adventures of a more or less supernatural type, lives happily ever after. Magic, spells, disguises and enchantments are some of the main ingredients of these stories (/…/)” [Cuddon,1998].
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