Worlds subverted: a generic analysis of the lion, the witch and the wardrobe, the subtle knife, and harry potter and the philosopher’s stone

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Tokdemir, Gökçe

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This dissertation aims to study three very important works in English children’s fiction: C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Philip Pullman’s The Subtle Knife, the second book of his trilogy His Dark Materials, and J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. The novels will be analyzed in terms of their approaches toward the conventions of fairy tale, fantasy and romance; to this end, the novels are to be evaluated in relation to their concept of chronotope, and the quest of good versus evil. While the secondary world or multiple worlds presented are going to be analyzed in terms of their perception of time and space along with the presentation of the supernatural elements, the characters will be evaluated in terms of the common classification good versus evil. The main argument of this study concentrates on the gradual estrangement from the crystal clear distinctions of the fairy tale genre to a more shadowy, pessimistic, and ambivalent vision of the fantastic in the children’s literature.

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English., Children’s Fiction.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/17690

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G. Tokdemir, “Worlds subverted: a generic analysis of the lion, the witch and the wardrobe, the subtle knife, and harry potter and the philosopher’s stone,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2008.