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Item SECONDARY WORLD FANTASIES: A STUDY OF ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (1865) BY LEWIS CARROLL AND THE MAGICIAN’S NEPHEW (1955) BY C.S. LEWIS(2021-10-07) YILMAZ, Elif; ELBİR, Nüket BelginThe aim of this thesis is to analyze the fantasy lands in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and C.S. Lewis’s the Magician’s Nephew in relation to concepts of reality and possibility of the primary world order, through and exploration of how the notion of “reality” is formed and manifested in the fantasy lands portrayed in these texts and how categorization of a text with fantasy elements depends on the formation of reality. The theoretical chapter presents a survey of the development of the criticism on literary fantasy in the twentieth-century through an exploration of some major texts which explains the characteristics of fantasy literature and the relationship of fantasy and reality by J.R.R Tolkien, Tzevetan Todorov, Eric S. Rabkin and Rosemary Jackson. In the analytical chapters the significance of Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland and the Magician’s Nephew as texts with fantasy elements to the literary fantasy is explored and the portrayal of fantastic within these texts is analyzed in the lights of the critical views discussed in the analytical chapter. It is concluded that fantasy is an expression of unconscious desires of individuals and societies which are portrayed through reversal or manifestation, yet not every text with fantasy elements can be categorized as a work of fantasy literature since such works need to portray an acceptance of fantasy and suspension of disbelief, therefore while C.S. Lewis work can be analyzed as a work of fantasy genre, the same cannot be stated for Lewis Carroll’s work which is a story of a dream with fantasy elements in it.