ALICE´S JUMP IN INTERSEMIOTIC AND INTERTEXTUAL TRANSPOSITION: FROM JOHN TENNIEL´S ILLUSTRATIONS TO MARGARET ATWOOD´S REREADING

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Lewis Carroll’s Through theLooking Glass (1871) continues to be open to cross-media transfer: musicals, drama, film, besides opera and television.Based on Clüver’s, Hoeck’s and Genette’s theories, this work presents an intersemiotic reading of Alice’s jump, as she passes from the world of reality into the world of the mirror, as described by Carroll and illustrated by John Tenniel; it then discusses Margaret Atwood’s rereadingof the same episode, in Negotiating with the Dead (2002). The counterposing of these two distinct arts and world views confirms the endless politextuality of the original text, and how the act of interpretation and critical reaction is shaped by current reception conventions.