Milton, Spenser and The Chronicles of Narnia: Literary Sources for the C.S. Lewis NovelsMcFarland, 2014 M11 21 - 196 páginas 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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... Lucy Pevensie and Jill Pole; perhaps Milton's Eden resonated so deeply for me because I had seen it before, in The Magician's Nephew. After beginning my college teaching career, and often feeling pangs of sympathy for Lewis the teacher ...
... Lucy . " It's you . We shan't meet you there . And how can we live , never meeting you ? " " But you shall meet me there , dear one , ” said Aslan . " Are - are you there , too , Sir ? " said Edmund . " I am , " said Aslan . " But there ...
... forget the snowy lamppost where Lucy meets Mr. Tumnus, the fantastic creation of Narnia in The Magician's Nephew, or the incredible sights encountered by the crew of the Dawn Treader at the end of the world : " Together they 15 ...
... Lucy's lamppost , illuminates the wilds of Lewis's country inside the wardrobe . Rather than simply exposing the Chronicles ' indebtedness to Spenser and Milton , these influences show the subtle and often pro- found ways in which the ...
... Lucy reports , " She calls herself the Queen of Narnia though she has no right to be queen at all .... And she drives about on a sledge , drawn by a reindeer , with her wand in her hand and a crown on her head " ( LWW 37-38 ) . Duessa ...
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