"This book teases out hitherto unrecognised Eastern aspects in and influences on C. S. Lewis' Narnia Chronicles. These include storylines, plots, themes, imagery and even cities and landscapes in the East, as well as the 'Persian' style of illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Althoug...

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1. Verfasser:	Ball, Warwick 1951- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York, NY Oxford University Press [2022]
Schlagworte:	Lewis, C. S. > 1898-1963 Orient > Motiv Lewis, C. S. / (Clive Staples) / 1898-1963 / Chronicles of Narnia Lewis, C. S. / (Clive Staples) / 1898-1963 / Criticism and interpretation Lewis, C. S. / (Clive Staples) / 1898-1963 / Knowledge and learning Narnia (Imaginary place) English literature / Asian influences Religion in literature English literature / 20th century / History and criticism Lewis, C. S. / (Clive Staples) / 1898-1963 Chronicles of Narnia (Lewis, C. S.) English literature Learning and scholarship 1900-1999 Criticism, interpretation, etc
Zusammenfassung:	"This book teases out hitherto unrecognised Eastern aspects in and influences on C. S. Lewis' Narnia Chronicles. These include storylines, plots, themes, imagery and even cities and landscapes in the East, as well as the 'Persian' style of illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Although never having ventured East himself, Lewis wrote that 'I am the product of endless books,' and in recognising Eastern references - many only subconsciously intended by Lewis - it is possible to enter the rich world of books that Lewis lived and breathed all his life. And, perhaps less obviously, overhear the conversations he had with his fellow Inklings or that he might have overheard himself in an Oxford pub. Religious messages other than the obvious Christian find their way into Narnia, but so too does the Arabian Nights and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam as well as the other great Persian poets; great travellers from Herodotus and Marco Polo to T. E. Lawrence and Robert Byron are there, but so too are the great fictional travellers, Baron Munchausen, Gulliver, and Sindbad; themes borrowed from the great epics, from the Odyssey and Aeneid to the Kalevala and the Knight in the Panther's Skin, can also be found. Delve deeper and Christianity is there along with paganism, but so too are Zoroastrian, Manichaean and even Islamic messages. Ultimately they are a reflection of the complex intellectual world that Lewis inhabited, and of the wider social and intellectual climate of Oxford in the first half of the twentieth century"--
Beschreibung:	XV, 298 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:	9780197626252