The Stories of Lewis Carroll, J.R.R. Tolkien and Philip Pullman

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Stuart Lee and Margaret Kean explore the
digital afterlives of these celebrated storytellers The city of
Oxford has been home to some of the world’s greatest writers and
has inspired countless stories for all ages. This discussion
celebrates Oxford as a place of stories and storytelling, and
examines how Oxford tales have been re-shaped across different
digital media. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Professor of English
Literature, University of Oxford) examines the character of Lewis
Carroll and the creation of 'Alice in Wonderland'. Stuart Lee
(Member of the English Faculty and Merton College, University of
Oxford) traces how Tolkien's Middle-earth and especially ‘The Lord
of the Rings’ have been reimagined through a range of digital
technologies, from games to films. Margaret Kean (Helen Gardner
Fellow in English, St Hilda's College, University of Oxford)
discusses how Philip Pullman plays with the idea of communication
across different media in ‘His Dark Materials’.