The Story of Alice Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert
2015, 2015-06-01, 2015-03-26
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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates two entangled lives: the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories. This ...relationship influenced Carroll's imaginative creation of Wonderland--a sheltered world apart during the stormy transition from the Victorian to the modern era.
This study examines the literary impact of Lewis Carroll's children's books on the history of English children's literature. Susina elucidates the cultural content of Carroll's work and situates the ...Alice books in relation to Carroll's juvenilia, his letters, photographs of children and his attempt to combine children's and adult literatures.
Since the first translations of Lewis Carroll's Alice books
appeared in Japan in 1899, Alice has found her way into nearly
every facet of Japanese life and popular culture. The books have
been ...translated into Japanese more than 500 times, resulting in
more editions of these works in Japanese than any other language
except English. Generations of Japanese children learned English
from textbooks containing Alice excerpts. Japan's internationally
famous fashion vogue, Lolita, merges Alice with French Rococo
style. In Japan Alice is everywhere-in manga, literature, fine art,
live-action film and television shows, anime, video games,
clothing, restaurants, and household goods consumed by people of
all ages and genders. In Alice in Japanese Wonderlands, Amanda
Kennell traverses the breadth of Alice's Japanese media
environment, starting in 1899 and continuing through 60s
psychedelia and 70s intellectual fads to the present, showing how a
set of nineteenth-century British children's books became a vital
element in Japanese popular culture. Using Japan's myriad
adaptations to investigate how this modern media landscape
developed, Kennell reveals how Alice connects different fields of
cultural production and builds cohesion out of otherwise disparate
media, artists, and consumers. The first sustained examination of
Japanese Alice adaptations, her work probes the meaning of Alice in
Wonderland as it was adapted by a cast of characters that includes
the "father of the Japanese short story," Ryūnosuke Akutagawa; the
renowned pop artist Yayoi Kusama; and the best-selling manga
collective CLAMP. While some may deride adaptive activities as mere
copying, the form Alice takes in Japan today clearly reflects
domestic considerations and creativity, not the desire to imitate.
By engaging with studies of adaptation, literature, film, media,
and popular culture, Kennell uses Japan's proliferation of Alices
to explore both Alice and the Japanese media environment.
This comic, serious inquiry into the nature of art takes its technical vocabulary from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. It is ridiculous to think of poems, paintings, ...or films as distinct from other things in the world, including people. Talking about art should be contiguous with talking about other relevant matters.
Analysing Lewis Carroll's Alice books in the context of children's literature from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, Ronald Reichertz argues that Carroll's striking originality was the ...result of a fusion of his narrative imagination and formal and thematic features from earlier children's literature. Drawing examples from a wide range of children's literature Reichertz demonstrates that the Alice books are infused with conventions of and allusions to earlier works and identifies precursors of Carroll's upside-down, looking-glass, and dream vision worlds. Key passages from related books are reprinted in the appendices, making available many hard-to-find examples of early children's literature.
During the past decade the Cattell–Horn Gf–Gc and Carroll Three-Stratum models have emerged as the consensus psychometric-based models for understanding the structure of human intelligence. Although ...the two models differ in a number of ways, the strong correspondence between the two models has resulted in the increased use of a broad umbrella term for a synthesis of the two models (Cattell–Horn–Carroll theory of cognitive abilities—CHC theory).
The purpose of this editorial is three-fold. First, I will describe the CHC framework and recommend that intelligence researchers begin using the CHC taxonomy as a common nomenclature for describing research findings and a theoretical framework from which to test hypotheses regarding various aspects of human cognitive abilities. Second, I argue that the emergence of the CHC framework should not be viewed as the capstone to the psychometric era of factor analytic research. Rather, I recommend the CHC framework serve as the stepping stone to reinvigorate the investigation of the structure of human intelligence.
Finally, the Woodcock-Muñoz Foundation Human Cognitive Abilities (HCA) project, which is an evolving, free, on-line electronic archive of the majority of datasets analyzed in
Carroll's (1993) seminal treatise on factor analysis of human cognitive abilities, is introduced and described. Intelligence scholars are urged to access the Carroll HCA datasets to test and evaluate structural models of human intelligence with contemporary methods (confirmatory factor analysis). In addition, suggestions are offered for linking the analysis of contemporary data sets with the seminal work of Carroll. The emergence of a consensus CHC taxonomy and access to the original datasets analyzed by Carroll provides an unprecedented opportunity to extend and refine our understanding of human intelligence.
Carroll symmetry arises from Poincaré symmetry upon taking the limit of vanishing speed of light. We determine the constraints on the energy-momentum tensor implied by Carroll symmetry and show that ...for energy-momentum tensors of perfect fluid form, these imply an equation of state
E
+
P
=
0
for energy density plus pressure. Therefore Carroll symmetry might be relevant for dark energy and inflation. In the Carroll limit, the Hubble radius goes to zero and outside it recessional velocities are naturally large compared to the speed of light. The de Sitter group of isometries, after the limit, becomes the conformal group in Euclidean flat space. We also study the Carroll limit of chaotic inflation, and show that the scalar field is naturally driven to have an equation of state with
w
= − 1. Finally we show that the freeze-out of scalar perturbations in the two point function at horizon crossing is a consequence of Carroll symmetry. To make the paper self-contained, we include a brief pedagogical review of Carroll symmetry, Carroll particles and Carroll field theories that contains some new material as well. In particular we show, using an expansion around speed of light going to zero, that for scalar and Maxwell type theories one can take two different Carroll limits at the level of the action. In the Maxwell case these correspond to the electric and magnetic limit. For point particles we show that there are two types of Carroll particles: those that cannot move in space and particles that cannot stand still.
It is a platitude that when we reason, we often take things for granted, sometimes even justifiably so. Although it is a platitude that we often take things for granted when we reason—whether ...justifiably or not—one might think that we do not have to. In fact, it is a natural expectation that were we not pressed by time, lack of energy or focus, we could always in principle make explicit in the form of premises every single presupposition we make in the course of our reasoning. In other words, it is natural to expect it to be true that presuppositionless reasoning is possible. In this essay, I argue that it is false: presuppositionless reasoning is impossible. Indeed, I think this is one of the lessons of a long-standing paradox about inference and reasoning known as Lewis Carroll’s (1985) regress of the premises. Many philosophers agree that Carroll’s regress teaches us something foundational about reasoning. I part ways about what it is that it teaches us. What it teaches us is that the structure of reasoning is constitutively presuppositional.
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