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Alice as a remediated image-text extends beyond one form, from Tenniel's illustrations to Alice in Sunderland to Alan Moore's Lost Girls. The dialogue between text and image creates a strong interdependence, a feeling that the work is incomplete without the collaborator. While we call Alice's adventures the creation of Lewis Carroll, any such strong definition of authorship breaks down in the face of that reliance and the knowledge of collaborations that preceded, beginning with Alice Liddell's own participation in the text. Likewise, the parallel to comics reminds us of the role the reader must play in completing the world and defining Alice.


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