A COMPARATIVE CHRONOTOPE ANALYSIS OF TIME AND SPACE IN THE FANTASTIC AND SURREAL WORLDS OF KHUDOYBERDI TUKHTABAEV AND LEWIS CARROLL
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https://doi.org/10.62536/sjehss.2026.v4.i6.pp107-115Keywords:
Chronotope, fantastic literature, children's literature, time, space, fantastic-surreal world, threshold, comparative analysis.Abstract
The article examines the artistic organisation of time and space in the fantastic worlds created by the Uzbek children's writer Kh. Tukhtabaev and the English writer L. Kerroll. The study is based on a comparative analysis of Kh. Tukhtabaev’s Riding a Yellow Genie and The Death of the Yellow Giant and L. Kerroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. The theoretical framework draws primarily on M. M. Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope and is supplemented by T. Todorov’s theory of the fantastic, V. Propp’s structural approach to the folktale, and Y. M. Lotman’s theory of artistic space and spatial boundaries. The analysis focuses on the ways in which the protagonists cross from everyday reality into fantastic space, how time functions after this transition, how the fantastic world is spatially organised, and how the child protagonist interacts with the transformed environment.
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