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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... Protagonists 51 III. Girls Whose Heads Have Something Inside Them: The Characterization of Women 77 IV. An Inside Bigger Than Its Outside: Setting and Geography 107 V. Knowing Him Better There: Spirituality and Belief 135 Conclusion 159 ...
... 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 famously opinionated, once experiencing a moment of connection with a ...
... protagonists as well as in negative characters. Lewis certainly was interested in how one could depict evil as realistically insidious without making the negative look too appealing: “In all but a few writers, the 'good' characters are ...
... protagonists. In addition to these reprobates, there is a host of evil minor characters who reflect the influence of Milton and Spenser. Finally, like Milton's Eve and Spenser's Redcrosse Knight, several of the characters in the ...
... protagonists. The influences of The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost thereby give powerful force to villains who must be challenging obstacles for the heroes to overcome while remaining su‡ciently uncomplicated and non-threatening to be ...
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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 |
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Milton, Spenser and The Chronicles of Narnia: Literary Sources for the C.S ... Elizabeth Baird Hardy Vista previa limitada - 2006 |