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dc.contributor.authorPavlik, Anthony-
dc.date.accessioned2013-11-26T13:10:11Z-
dc.date.available2013-11-26T13:10:11Z-
dc.date.issued2011-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10443/1891-
dc.descriptionPhD Thesisen_US
dc.description.abstractFantasy other worlds are often seen as alternatives with which to critique the ‘real’ world, or as offering spaces where child protagonists can take advantage of the otherness they encounter in their own process of maturation. However, such readings of fantasy other worlds, rather than celebrating heterogeneity, implicitly see ‘other’ spaces as ‘unreal’ and there either to support the real in some way, as being in some way inferior to the real, or in need of salvation by protagonists from the real world. This thesis proposes a reading of such texts that draws on social theories of constructed spatiality in order to examine first how, to varying degrees, and depending upon the attitude of authors towards the figure of the child, such ‘fantasy’ places can be seen as potentially real “thirdspaces” of performance and agency for protagonists, and thus as neutral spaces of activity rather than confrontation or growth and, second, how such presentations may be seen as reflecting back into the potential for the spatial activity of readers.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherNewcastle Universityen_US
dc.titleA view from elsewhere :the spatiality of children's fantasy fictionen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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