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Gulshoda Avloyorova
PhD researcher Teacher of the Department of Foreign language theory and practice, Shahrisabz state pedagogical institute
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TRANSCENDING THE ORDINARY: ARCHETYPAL STRUCTURES IN THE CHILDREN'S FICTION OF SUSAN HILL AND KHUDOYBERDI TUKHTABOYEV Gulshoda Avloyorova
International Journal of Literature and Language Studies Vol. 5 No. 07 (2026): International Journal of Literature and Language Studies
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This paper undertakes a comparative archetypal analysis of two children’s novels produced in radically different cultural settings: Susan Hill’s psychological realist narrative “I'm the King of the Castle” and Khudoyberdi Tukhtaboyev’s Uzbek folk-fantasy “Riding Yellow Giant”. Drawing on the archetypal criticism of Jung, Campbell, Frye, and Propp, the study asks whether the deep narrative structures identified in Western mythological criticism — the Shadow, the threshold, the ordeal, the return — organise both texts despite their divergent genres, settings, and outcomes. Close reading of key episodes and character dialogue shows that both novels stage a contest between a vulnerable child-protagonist and a more powerful antagonistic or supernatural figure across a liminal, wooded territory. However, the studies diverge sharply in resolution: Hill’s novel enacts an unredeemed Shadow-encounter ending in the protagonist’s destruction, while Tukhtaboyev’s novel completes Campbell’s full heroic cycle, ending in mastery and return. The paper argues that archetypal criticism illuminates both the cross-cultural persistence of mythic structure in children's literature and the culturally specific ways in which individual literary traditions resolve — or refuse to resolve — the archetypal ordeal.
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