A Century of Dislocated Time: Time Travel, Magic and the Search for Self

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  • Carole Scott

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https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl1996vol6no2art1399

Keywords:

time shift, time travel, fantasy fiction, magic, self perception, Tom's Midnight Garden, Philippa Pearce, The Root Cellar, Janet Lunn, Jane Yolen, The Devil's Arithmetic, Ruth Park, Playing Beatie Bow

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1996-07-01

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“A Century of Dislocated Time: Time Travel, Magic and the Search for Self” (1996) Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature, 6(2), pp. 14–20. doi:10.21153/pecl1996vol6no2art1399.

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