Видение, пространственность и одухотворенный ландшафт: „Пак с холмов Пука” Р. Киплинга и границы фэнтези
Sight, Spatiality, and the Animated Landscape: Kipling’s Puck of Pook’s Hill and the Borders of Fantasy

Summary/Abstract: For my exploration of the borders of fantasy, I argue that borders function as places of contact between sight, space, and narrative. Borders figure prominently in Rudyard Kipling’s Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906), and exemplify some of the ways that borders of fantasy function in literature. In Puck, visitors from the past cross temporal borders, but it is the space itself which allows the borders of time to be transgressed. With each new encounter, the children Dan and Una learn to see the textured landscape they inhabit with new eyes, connecting history and myth to the land itself. I focus particularly on sight and how the “way of seeing” the landscape requires the presence of borders. The fantastic landscape itself participates in the creation of an animated space that is simultaneously natural and more than natural, and cultural memory, as presented in stories and songs, fills that space with meaning.

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