Fantastic in children's literature: Roald Dahl case

This postgraduate thesis named as "Fantasy in Children's Literature: Roald Dahl Case" is aimed to analyze how the genre of fantastic recently taking place excessively in literature is fictionized in children's books of Roald Dahl, who is a globally known author and whose books are translated to nearly fifty languages and published more than hundred million times. Fourteen books of this English author who is writing up topics and characters pushing the limits of fancy are examined and "Charlie and Chocolate Factory", "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator", "James and the Giant Peach" and "The BFG" which have never-never, underlie all the work of this thesis. Fantastic literature is a genre in which real and irreal getting involved composing surreal events of fantasy characters. The character who lives many problems in real life tries to get freed and move away when not being able to cope with those problems. The protagonist moving in a fantastic journey where could find solutions by passing to irreal place by a talismanic object gets through on those problems by feeling safe and more powerful in a fictional place. The protagonist improves in every journey and conflict; at the end, gets back to real life in a self realization. However, both the protagonist and reader find themselves in a quandary about the reality of the setting of irreal and real places. Fantasy proceeds to exist in that uncertainty situation. Works which are Roald Dahl's fantastic children's books are selected by document scanning and they are analysed in the context of fantastic fiction analysis theory. As a method qualitative research and as a data collection tool content analysis are used. The aim of the study, which aims to bring a systematic to the studies of fantasy fiction, is to evaluate the fantastic children's books of Roald Dahl, chosen as a sample from the world children's literature, in the context of indecision, space (time and space), people, imaginary items, talismanic objects, journey, -escape and departure- codes) is to deconstruct the works in the context of fantastic fiction. As a result of the examinations, it has been determined how often which fantastic codes take place in the works of the author. As a result, it has been found that Dahl's works have two structures, surface and deep, and can be evaluated within the scope of the Fantasy Fictions Analysis Theory. Keywords: Children's Literature, Roald Dahl, Fantastic Fiction