Uncanny Effects in the Alice Tales: A Literary Analysis of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

The main points of the work include:

The author defines 'uncanny.'

In fantasy literature almost anything can happen.

Alice is inside the text but the reader is both inside and outside of the text.

The author relates the term uncanny to Freud.

The uncanny can never be fully understood. It is related to things that are terrifying.

Uncanny triggers include animism, anthropomorphism, automatism, the fear of being alive, telepathy, death and other things.

The author discusses other writers definitions of uncanny.

Anthropomorphism is not unsettling to Alice.

A lot of the paper has to do with Alice and the chess board and game.

The rabbit hole tunnel can be interpreted as the birth canal.

The thesis can be found here.

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