C. S. Lewis's seven-book series about the fictional land of Narnia has become an irrefutable classic. This collection of original, wide-ranging essays explores the past, present and future importance of The Chronicles of Narnia, providing the most...
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C. S. Lewis's seven-book series about the fictional land of Narnia has become an irrefutable classic. This collection of original, wide-ranging essays explores the past, present and future importance of The Chronicles of Narnia, providing the most current, and some of the most cutting-edge, research about this popular fantasy series
C. S. Lewis's seven-book series about the fictional land of Narnia has become an irrefutable classic. This collection of original, wide-ranging essays explores the past, present and future importance of The Chronicles of Narnia, providing the most...
more
C. S. Lewis's seven-book series about the fictional land of Narnia has become an irrefutable classic. This collection of original, wide-ranging essays explores the past, present and future importance of The Chronicles of Narnia, providing the most current, and some of the most cutting-edge, research about this popular fantasy series. Cover -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: TEXT AND CONTEXTS -- 1 "Turkish Delights and Sardines with Tea": Food as a Framework for Exploring Nationalism, Gender, and Religion in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe -- 2 Scapegoating and Collective Violence in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe -- PART II: APPLICATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS -- 3 Moving Beyond "All That Rot": Redeeming Education in The Chronicles of Narnia -- 4 War and the Liminal Space: Situating The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in the Twentieth-Century Narrative of Trauma and Survival -- 5 C. S. Lewis's Manifold Mythopoeics: Toward a Reconsideration of Eschatological Time in the Construction of The Chronicles of Narnia -- PART III: ADAPTATIONS AND MEDIATIONS -- 6 The Author, the Movie, and the Marketing: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Early Reader Adaptations -- 7 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wii: Lewis's Theology in the Narnia Video Game -- PART IV: CONFLICTS AND CONTROVERSY -- 8 Lewis and Anti-Lewis: On the Influence of The Chronicles of Narnia on His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman -- 9 "Beautiful Barbarians": Anti-Racism in The Horse and His Boy and Other Chronicles of Narnia -- 10 Boy-Girls and Girl-Beasts: The Gender Paradox in C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia -- Further Reading -- Index.
