Alice in wonderland

In Beyond Comparison Mitchell talks about the relation between the visual and verbal aspect of the reading experience and proposes the term "imagetext" as an explanation for the unity of these two factors. There is one genre in particular, where I believe that this theory hold true and that is in children's literature.

I'm also taking this Victorian Literature class along with Jennilee and this week we've just finished our focus on Victorian children's literature, which is why we spent time on Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. Our professor did indeed emphasize the importance of acquiring a copy of Alice's Adventure In Wonderland that included the original drawings by John Tenniel. So closely did Lewis Carrol and John Tenniel work on this novel that at one point of the process a particular chapter/ episode of Alice in Wonderland was cut out because Tenniel could not figure out the correct way of illustrating the experience. I just thought that was really interesting.  read more »

In my Victorian Literature class this semester, one of the many texts we have to read is Alice's in Wonderland. Every time my Professor speaks about the text he mentions one thing that stands out to me each time: the text along with the images are one. In a sense, the story isn't the story without the images, and the images aren't the images without the text. To me Alice in Wonderland is a great example of W.T.J. Mitchell's theory of Image-text in the Beyond Comparison piece we read. My Professor cautions those who bought the text without the illustrations, in that they wont get the full literary experience without them. In this instance, although the illustrations may seem like reproductions of the text, they aren't as separate as they appear, and have everything to do with one another. John Tenniel created the images for the story alongside Lewis Carrol who wrote the story. Together both of their distinct works (the text and the images) work together to tell the story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.  read more »