C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia

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Harold Bloom
Chelsea House Publishers, 2006 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 236 pages
Drawing on biblical symbols, Greek and Roman mythology, and English and Irish fairy tales, this book creates the enchanted setting of Narnia, a fictional world where magic meets reality. It is suitable for students composing compare-and-contrast essays on this enduring and endearing classic.

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Contents

Lewiss Concept of Nature
5
S Lewiss Narnia and the Grand Design
17
The Parallel World of Narnia
35
Copyright

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adult adventure Aravis Aslan Aslan's country Beaver become C.S. Lewis Cair Paravel Calormenes chap characters Charn Christ Christian Chronicles of Narnia creation creatures critics dark Dawn Treader death Digory Digory's donkey Dryads dwarfs earth Edmund Eerdmans enchanted episode Essays Eustace's evil fairy fantasy faun feel fiction Filmer final girl Hideous Strength Holbrook Horse human imagination J.R.R. Tolkien journey King Tirian kings and queens land Last Battle Lewis's Lion literary Lucy magic Magician's Nephew Manlove medieval moral myth Narnian Chronicles nature novel Old Narnia Orual Paradise Lost parallel Perelandra Peter Pevensies Pilgrim's Regress political Prince Caspian Psyche readers Reepicheep resurrection Rilian says Schakel Shasta Silver Chair spirit Stone Table story suggests Susan symbol tale talking animals Talking Beasts Tash tells Telmarines theme things Tolkien trees trilogy Tumnus Uncle Andrew Ungit University Voyage Walter Hooper Wardrobe White Witch whole writing

About the author (2006)

Harold Bloom was born on July 11, 1930 in New York City. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Cornell in 1951 and his Doctorate from Yale in 1955. After graduating from Yale, Bloom remained there as a teacher, and was made Sterling Professor of Humanities in 1983. Bloom's theories have changed the way that critics think of literary tradition and has also focused his attentions on history and the Bible. He has written over twenty books and edited countless others. He is one of the most famous critics in the world and considered an expert in many fields. In 2010 he became a founding patron of Ralston College, a new institution in Savannah, Georgia, that focuses on primary texts. His works include Fallen Angels, Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems, Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life and The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of The King James Bible. Harold Bloom passed away on October 14, 2019 in New Haven, at the age of 89.

Bibliographic information

TitleC.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia
Bloom's modern critical interpretations
EditorHarold Bloom
PublisherChelsea House Publishers, 2006
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedMay 29, 2008
ISBN0791093107, 9780791093108
Length236 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic
Juvenile Nonfiction / Literary Criticism & Collections
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / Science Fiction & Fantasy
  
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