Landscapes In-Between: Neverland and Its Windows
Landscapes In-Between: Neverland and Its Windows

Summary/Abstract: The portal is an essential element in the construction of space, being perceived not only as a frontier, but also as an opening point. Fantasy fictions use portals of diverse natures to link primary to secondary worlds. Exploring this aspect can offer a clearer picture of the consequences and influence that open or closed borders, as well as other structures of real space may have on the individual. The main hypothesis of my essay is that space in J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan and Wendy comprises a network of portals that take on a cognitively magical role in the character’s evolution. This network is built on fractals, starting with the window that mediates the passage between the material world and that of dream/imagination, and reaching Neverland, which is not simply a secondary world, but actually a space-portal.

• Details
• Contents