Milton, Spenser and The Chronicles of Narnia: Literary Sources for the C.S. Lewis NovelsMcFarland, 21/11/2014 - 196 من الصفحات In 1950, Clive Staples Lewis published the first in a series of children's stories that became The Chronicles of Narnia. The now vastly popular Chronicles are a widely known testament to the religious and moral principles that Lewis embraced in his later life. What many readers and viewers do not know about the Chronicles is that a close reading of the seven-book series reveals the strikingly effective influences of literary sources as diverse as George MacDonald's fantastic fiction and the courtly love poetry of the High Middle Ages. Arguably the two most influential sources for the series are Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen and John Milton's Paradise Lost. Lewis was so personally intrigued by these two particular pieces of literature that he became renowned for his scholarly studies of both Milton and Spenser. This book examines the important ways in which Lewis so clearly echoes The Faerie Queen and Paradise Lost, and how the elements of each work together to convey similar meanings. Most specifically, the chapters focus on the telling interweavings that can be seen in the depiction of evil, female characters, fantastic and symbolic landscapes and settings, and the spiritual concepts so personally important to C.S. Lewis. |
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... Lewis, I did recognize the title from having seen bits of the animated film on television while I recovered from a ... Lewis's writing. I had been both spiritually moved and challenged by the Chronicles, so I was not surprised to see ...
... Lewis's love for and understanding of The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost had shaped his creation of the stories I had loved since childhood. I began to suspect that my interest in the works of Spenser and Milton might have been ...
... Lewis's own writing about his work and the writing of Milton and Spenser was also remarkably helpful in the evolution of this analysis. Despite the critical tendency to dismiss any literary work that seems to be written for children ...
... Lewis was no literary snob. He enthusiastically enjoyed reading Chaucer and H. Ridder Haggard, Jane Austen and Beatrix Potter, Shakespeare and Arthur Conan Doyle. Lewis's Experiment in Criticism remains one of the most refreshing and ...
... Lewis was himself a Christian, and because his books feature British protagonists because Lewis was himself British, the Chronicles echo Milton and Spenser naturally as a result of Lewis's lifelong appreciation of their work. Lewis was ...
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The Depiction of Evil Men Mortals Monsters and Misled Protagonists | 51 |
Girls Whose Heads Have Something Inside Them The Characterization of Women | 77 |
An Inside Bigger Than Its Outside Setting and Geography | 107 |
Knowing Him Better There Spirituality and Belief | 135 |
Conclusion | 159 |
Chapter Notes | 163 |
Bibliography | 177 |
Index | 183 |