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"The present volume of studies is not a history of German literature in the nineteenth century. It is an attempt to trace the elements of democratic thought in some characteristic forms of this literature."--Pref. ; Bibliography: p. 377-394. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"The present volume of studies is not a history of German literature in the nineteenth century. It is an attempt to trace the elements of democratic thought in some characteristic forms of this literature."--Preface. ; Bibliography: p. 377-394. ; Mode of access: Internet.

This article examines reworkings of Alice in Wonderland in works by postwar authors writing in German. While writers of both genders use Lewis Carroll's fictional character to question the expressive capacities of language, Rose Ausländer, Sarah Kirsch, Elisabeth Plessen, and Angelika Mechtel optimistically interpret her protean character as essential to poetic creativity and psychological autonomy. H.C. Artmann and Jürg Federspiel, by contrast, associate Alice with a postmodern loss of coherence in identity and narrative form. (CM)