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One of the best-loved and most scrutinized texts after Shakespeare and the Bible is the brace of Alice books, Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, written for a pair of real Alices by the pseudonymous Lewis Carroll; it would seem implausible that there is any aspect of them left unexamined. Yet there is one large-scale motif running through the two books that has essentially escaped critical attention - the pervasive mediaeval theme. It is remarkable that there seem to have been no previous suggestions for the sources of what is really the main context of the Alice stories, the mediaeval temperament of many of the characters. Much has been made of the Victorian underpinnings of the tales, and they have been analyzed from an impressively diverse range of perspectives. But, for some curious reason, the issue of the deep historical sources of the story lines seems never to have been addressed in the plethora of analyses of the works. How it could have escaped scrutiny, given the prevalence of the mediaeval themes throughout both texts, is difficult to understand, but the present treatment attempts to correct this omission with an extended comparison of numerous aspects of the sequences of events to those of the 12th century royal courts, in particular. Includes over 100 illustrations, a glossary, an annotated bibliography, timelines and an index.
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Christopher Tyler is an English visual neuroscientist based in San Francisco with extensive interests in the historical development of ideas. He stumbled onto the issue of the parallel history of the Alice stories through an investigation of the role of women in the European intellectual lineage, such as the founding of universities. His scientific work is focused on the understanding of the human perception of the third dimension, but has ranged from the dynamics of color vision to the diagnosis of medical disorders of the visual system.
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- PublisherDiatrope Press
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0972533044
- ISBN 13 9780972533041
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages170
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Parallel Alices: Alice through the Looking Glass of Eleanor of Aquitaine
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PARALLEL ALICES: ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS OF ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE.
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Book Description 8vo. pp. 170. Illustrated title page and numerous illustrations, including over 100 in colour. Family trees. Original publisher's blue cloth lettered gilt on spine. Dust jacket. From the working library of the actor Peter O Toole (1932 - 2013) with his posthumous bookplate. This small typographic bookplate reads 'From the Library of Peter O Toole and was designed by Michael Mitchell of Libanus Press and was authorised by the executors of his estate.Loosely inserted typed signed letter from Christopher Tyler to Peter O'Toole written from The Hermitage, 204 Church Road, Hanwell Village, London W7 3BP and addressed to Peter O'Toole, Steve Kenis & Company, Royalty House, 72-74 Dean Street, London WID 3SG dated 6/20/13 and consisting of about 200 words in which he thanks O'Toole for allowing him to reproduce his picture from 'The Lion in Winter'. He says he encloses a signed copy of the hardback edition of his book, but he appears to have forgotten to sign it. The author examines parallels between Alice Liddell's world and the court of King Henry II, his palace at Woodstock and Princess Alice of the Vexin. A print on demand book. Very good. ISBN 9780972533041 Very good indeed. Seller Inventory # C33862
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