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Ways of Using Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in Teaching English
JIRKŮ, Dana
Abstract Diploma thesis describes methodical ways of using Lewis Carroll´s Alice in Wonderland. The structure of the thesis is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part deals with using literature in teaching foreign languages. It describes the life and work of Lewis Carroll, defines teaching of literature and describes the methods of drama teaching in foreign languages. Practical part contains a complete drama and some techniques used for the literary work. A DVD film of the drama Alice in Wonderland is an insertion of the thesis.
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A Fairy-Tale Fantasy in Victorian Children´s Literature: Lewis Carroll´s Alice in Wonderland and Charles Kingsley´s Water Babies
TÝMALOVÁ, Monika
The aim of this thesis is a comparative analysis of two popular novels of English children's literature, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through The Looking-Glass and Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies. In the theoretical part the thesis gives information about the life and work of these two authors, and about the general development and particular features of fantastic children's literature. The interpretation draws on Tolkien's essay On Fairy-Stories, which focuses on three primary features: escape, renewal and consolation. The analysis itself deals with the following themes: children and adults, the picture of the other world, danger and violence, friendship and return. In this respect, the thesis outlines the similarities and differences in both authors' attitudes to fantasy genre.
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Interpretations and overinterpretations of Alice in Wonderland
Blahoňovská, Šárka ; Fišerová, Michaela (advisor) ; Charvát, Martin (referee)
The subject of this thesis are interpretations and overinterpretatios of Lewis Carroll's work Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. That includes interpretations based on autor's life and the historical period which he lived in, psychoanalytic, feministic and psychedelic interpretations and those which perceive Alice's story as a game. In this thesis there are also mentioned adaptations based on motives of both novels. We use a theory of interpretation of Umberto Eco to distinguish between these interpretations. This theory is used in our own analysis in which we focus on crucial aspects. That means the behaviour of the main character and vice versa, identity of Alice, context, genre and the model reader of the naration. We also focus on these aspects in the selected interpretations. The emphasis is put on the proces of dialectics between the text and its reader which these interpretations and overinterpretations come from. We also try to see it from the point of view of the aproach to the text. That is why this case study reveals a problem of remake and adaptation.
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