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Lewis Carroll\u2019s books of fantasy, Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland<\/em> and Through the Looking-Glass<\/em>, were important to Frye, and he mentions them frequently in the Notebooks.\u00a0 In the Anatomy of Criticism<\/em> he says that \u201cthe Alice books are perfect Menippean satires, and so is [Charles Kingsley\u2019s] The Water-Babies<\/em>\u201d (Anatomy<\/em> 310).\u00a0 Elsewhere, he identifies a quality \u201cof slightly nutty fantasy which has been the characteristic of Oxford from time immemorial\u201d that links works such as The Anatomy of Melancholy<\/em>, Alice in Wonderland<\/em>, and the works of the Inklings (C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams) \u2013 the latter products of the Oxford in which Frye himself studied (\u201cThe Critic and the Writer,\u201d Collected Works<\/em> 7:470-71).<\/p>\n Tim Burton\u2019s new film Alice in Wonderland<\/em> is more of an epic adventure than a Menippean satire, and interestingly enough it combines elements from the two Alice books with elements of The Lord of the Rings<\/em>, the Narnia stories, and perhaps one or two from The Wizard of Oz<\/em>.\u00a0 The result is a successful and charming film whose ethos is quite different from the bizarre world created by Lewis Carroll.<\/p>\n The opening of the film effectively represents the famous descent which was the subject of some discussion on the blog last year; thereafter, the story becomes a quest narrative and a struggle against evil.\u00a0 Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp are excellent as the Red Queen and the Mad Hatter.\u00a0 It is a visually stunning film, in Frye\u2019s terminology a triumph of opsis<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gCM4JiJ6B2I Lewis Carroll\u2019s books of fantasy, Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, were important to Frye, and he mentions them frequently in the Notebooks.\u00a0 In the Anatomy of Criticism he says that \u201cthe Alice books are perfect Menippean satires, and so is [Charles Kingsley\u2019s] The Water-Babies\u201d (Anatomy 310).\u00a0 Elsewhere, he identifies a quality […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[101,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-popular-culture"],"yoast_head":"\n