Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis
Michael Ward argues convincingly that medieval cosmology, a subject which fascinated Lewis throughout his life, provides the imaginative key to the seven novels. Drawing on the whole range of Lewis's writings (including previously unpublished drafts of the Chronicles), Ward shows that the Narnia stories were designed to express the characteristics of the seven medieval planets-the Sun, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn-planets which Lewisdescribed as spiritual symbols of permanent value and especially worthwhile in our own generation. Using these seven symbols, Lewis secretly constructed the Chronicles so that the story-line…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-531387-1
- EAN: 9780195313871
- Produktnummer: 22675184
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Masse: H24.1 cm x B16.6 cm x D3.2 cm 721 g
- Gewicht: 721
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Michael Ward is Chaplain of Peterhouse, the oldest of the colleges that constitute the University of Cambridge. A leading authority on C.S.Lewis, he lived and worked for three years in The Kilns-which was once Lewis's Oxford home. He is co-editing the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis
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