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• Title:
  Happy Gardens of Childhood Literary Portrayals of Garden Space in James Matthew Barrie’s Novel Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
• Creator:
  Wieczorkiewicz, Aleksandra
• Description:
  It is impossible to imagine London without its royal parks. One of the most beautiful among them is Kensington Gardens, forever connected with the figure of a boy who didn’t want to grow up: Peter Pan. This article provides an interpretation of James Matthew Barrie’s novel Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906), centred mainly around literary portrayals of garden space, which becomes an embodiment of the paradise of childhood: Arcadia, a pleasant place, locus amoenus, allowing one to exist beyond evanescence, growing up and sadness. Kensington Gardens are London’s green island, primeval Neverland, where the fairy-tale and the magic are rooted: during a day it creates a playing space for “human children,” whereas at night it goes under the rule of Queen Mab and mysterious fairies. The outline of various interpretation paths which can be followed in Kensington Gardens are accompanied by the reproductions and analyses of Arthur Rackham’s illustrations, which in an outstanding way capture the whimsical genius of the author of Peter Pan.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2018 Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach
• Date:
  2018.06.29
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne [Silesian Journal of Polish Studies]; Vol. 11 No. 1 (2018): Park: Space and Metaphor. Presentations: Natalia Malek; 89-108;
  Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne; Tom 11 Nr 1 (2018): Park. Przestrzeń i metafora. Prezentacje: Natalia Malek; 89-108;
  2353-0928;
  2084-0772
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press
• Relation: https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/SSP/article/view/8666/6679
• Subject:
  park;
  Peter Pan;
  James Matthew Barrie;
  Kensington Gardens;
  locus;
  amoenus
• Identifier: https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/SSP/article/view/8666
• Data provider:
  Czasopisma Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
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• Type:
  text