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Yun, Cheongie. “A Discourse of the Reverse and Madness: A Reading of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 37.1: (2011): 107-29. Many critics have read Alice’s adventures in Wonderland as popular fantasies or fairy tales. This reading could be reached the nonsensical world of Alice’s world. But actually the Alice’s world is not nonsense at all because its underlying meanings are more complicated than fantasies or fairy tales show. Carroll questioned the value of order and principles in the world and explored their sophisticated meanings through ‘the satiric destruction of the common sense.’ By using both ‘episodic dream structures’ and ‘symbolic nonsenses,’ he deconstructed the boundaries of dream and real world, and reversed the order of the world. For Carroll, this was an effective narrative strategy. In fact, it is worth pointing out that the motifs of the reverse and madness in the Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland are almost dramatically composed. Carroll embodies them to create the sensical world beyond the reach of nonsense. ‘What he creates is a cosmic joke but it is more than a good joke’. Carroll shows us moral and philosophical insight into the world, which is based on Victorian society which have a disordered and disoriented world without God. (Seonam University)