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22 de fev. de 2016

“Curiouser and curiouser” Through the Looking Glass portal plate





A black and white plate showing Alice about to travel through the looking glass to Wonderland. This design is inspired by Lewis Carroll's stories of 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Alice through the Looking Glass' and has been designed and illustrated by Eleanor Stuart after John Tenniel.

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On the Nature of Portals in Fantasy Literature 
Marius Conkan

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 "What is a portal? What role does it play in fantasy literature? Using the portal as a theoretical lens, could we access a new perspective on this kind of literature? What is the rabbit hole through which Alice descends in Wonderland, or the wardrobe where the Pevensie brothers enter Narnia? Can these intermediary spaces take on a conceptual and cultural importance, beyond their thematic function of transporting characters into alternative worlds?" 

" Abstract: This paper aims to analyze the nature of portal in fantasy literature. The portal is at the heart of mapping and building imaginary objects, creatures and situations that configure the alternative space. The symbolic journey a character makes through the portal is the matrix of fantasy fictions. Beyond the arguments that aim at revealing the structures of imaginary worlds, there are some questions that still need answers: What is a portal? A frontier, a process or maybe both? Are we talking about physical space, or rather about an internal and abstract dimension?"



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