Alice and Her in dialogue: the characteristics of modern and postmodern aesthetics in Alice in Wonderland and Her
Post-modernity. Post modern subject. Literature. Cinema. Aesthetics.
The Post- modernity is announced by the Post-modernism that emerges in the mid 50s, after the age that was called modernism. Therefore, using the theories of the main authors which are discussed in this work, such as Françoise Lyotard (1998), Linda Hutcheon (1988), Steven Connor (2004), Terry Eagleton (2006-2016), Gilles Deleuze (2012), Jacques Derrida (2006), Gilles Lipovestky (1944), the analysis will make use of the investigative method, in a qualitative way, how the chosen works analyse this research represent such characteristics in literature and in cinema. In this context, this research develops the aim of analyzing the main characteristics of the post-modern aesthetics chiefly in the works Alice in Wonderland (1965) by Lewis Carrol and Her (2013) by Spike Jonze. Highlighted as renowned homologies by Humberto Eco, the thematic similarities between these two works are: real world versus virtual world, supported by the concepts of ‘non-place’ by Gilles Deleuze, post modern subject, which is also analyzed through the theory of Stuart Hall (2014), the fact of the two main characters are comprehended as adrift subjects, and this is an aspect that will be understood by through the theory of Deleuze about the deterritorialization, the absence of God himself as an element of rupture of a social balance pillar, this analysis will be based on the theory of Terry Eagleton, and also the absence of family as absence of a social structure pillar.