C.S. Lewis : The chronicles of Narnia /
C. S. Lewis's seven-book series about the fictional land of Narnia has become an irrefutable classic. This collection of new, wide-ranging essays explores the past, present and future importance of the Narnia books, providing the most current, and some of the most cutting-edge, research about t...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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| Series: | New casebooks (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Lance Weldy
- 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 / Rachel Towns; 2. Scapegoating and collective violence in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe / Melody Green
- Part II. Applications and Implications: 3. Moving beyong "all that rot": redeeming education in The Chronicles of Narnia / Keith Dorwick, 4. War and the liminal space: situating The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in the twentieh century narrative of trauma and survival / Nanette Norris; 5. C. S. Lewis's manifold mythopoeics: towards a reconsideration of eschatological time in the construction of The Chronicles of Narnia / Joseph Michael Sommers
- Part III. Adaptations and Mediations: 6. The author, the movie, and the marketing: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and early reader adaptations / Rhonda Brock-Servias and Matthew B. Prickett; 7. The lion, the witch, and the Wii: Lewis's theology in the Narnia video game / Aaron Clayton
- 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 / Gili Bar-Hillel; 9. "Beautiful barbarians": anti-racism in The Horse and His Boy and other Chronicles of Narnia / Jennifer Taylor; 10. Boy-girls and girl-beasts: the gender paradox in C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia / Susana Rodriguez.