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Abstract:
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This thesis explores the significance of authors selecting children as their intended audience by analyzing the narrative techniques used to inscribe the child reader within Madeleine L'Engle's Time Trilogy, A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, and A Swiftly Tilting Planet, and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass. It analyzes how through character focalization L'Engle and Pullman create a subject position for the child reader that illustrates the dominant ideological system she exists within, while simultaneously encouraging her to revolt against the system. Lastly, the discussion will explain how the ideological nature of L'Engle's and Pullman's trilogies illustrate a paradox unique to children's literature. |