Carroll Eventyr
Heikki Raudaskoski
hraudask at zombie.oulu.fi
Fri Feb 24 08:20:04 CST 1995
Just a suggestion: 'eventyr' means, of course, 'fairy-tale', or
'adventure' in Danish; and 'eventyr' is, as some of you may
know, how H.C. Andersen called his texts. So, could this (among
other connotations) hybridically refer both to Hans Christian
Andersen and Lewis Carroll, two among the greatest 1900th century
storytellers; and isn't _GR_, among other things, a "Carroll
fairy-tale"; with the distinction that superterranean "normal world"
and subterranean Wonderland mix irrevocably. (And, although the
Grimm brothers have influenced _GR_ a lot, and explicit Carrollian
resonances have been shown, one could possibly also find many
Andersenian threads in it; I have to think this over.)
Heikki
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