Premium Content The Layers Under the Wordplay of The Mouse's Tale
By Samantha Lazar - February 27, 2004
Lewis Carroll has a lot of fun playing with language in Alice in Wonderland. He points out its flexibility, inadequacies, and the confusion that it can produce when taken at face value without common sense and interpretation. His playfulness is certainly entertaining and raises points about some interesting quirks of language, but there is often…
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