image-text

In response to both Jennilee and Keyla's blogs, I must also agree that Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a magnificent representation about the discussions we have in class.

Throughout the story, the relationship between image and text are constantly changing. As both have previously stated, Carroll worked closely with Tenniel to create a symbiotic relationship between the text and the images. I would describe this book as having an image/text relationship at some moments, an image-text relationship at other moments, and every so often an imagetext relationship.

For example, due to the close working relationship between the author and artist, the images and text are co-dependent. We read the episode of the caterpillar and see the episode in cartoon form on the same page.  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 »