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Book SynopsisThe perfect companion to Lewis Carroll's classic book and director Tim Burton's remake of Alice in Wonderland releasing in March 2010 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is treasured by people of all ages who have followed young Alice on her trip down a rabbit hole and into a fantasy world filled with strange and whimsical characters.
Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS: “It’s My Own Invention”— Yeah, Right! ix
Introduction: You’re Late for a Very Important Date 1
PART ONE “WAKE UP, ALICE DEAR”
1 Unruly Alice: A Feminist View of Some Adventures in Wonderland 7
Megan S. Lloyd
2 Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow, but Never Jam Today: On Procrastination, Hiking, and . . . the Spice Girls? 19
Mark D. White
3 Nuclear Strategists in Wonderland 33
Ron Hirschbein
4 “You’re Nothing but a Pack of Cards!”: Alice Doesn’t Have a Social Contract 47
Dennis Knepp
PART TWO “THAT’S LOGIC”
5 “Six Impossible Things before Breakfast” 61
George A. Dunn and Brian McDonald
6 Reasoning Down the Rabbit-Hole: Logical Lessons in Wonderland 79
David S. Brown
7 Three Ways of Getting It Wrong: Induction in Wonderland 93
Brendan Shea
8 Is There Such a Thing as a Language? 107
Daniel Whiting
PART THREE “WE’RE ALL MAD HERE”
9 Alice, Perception, and Reality: Jell-O Mistaken for Stones 125
Robert Arp
10 How Deep Does the Rabbit-Hole Go?: Drugs and Dreams, Perception and Reality 137
Scott F. Parker
11 Perspectivism and Tragedy: A Nietzschean Interpretation of Alice’s Adventure 153
Rick Mayock
12 Wishing It Were Some Other Time: The Temporal Passage of Alice 167
Mark W. Westmoreland
PART FOUR “WHO IN THE WORLD AM I?”
13 Serious Nonsense 183
Charles Taliaferro and Elizabeth Olson
14 “Memory and Muchness”: Alice and the Philosophy of Memory 197
Tyler Shores
CONTRIBUTORS: Pawns and Pieces: As Arranged before Commencement of Game 213
INDEX: “Down, Down, Down”: What You Will Find at the Bottom 219
