C.S. Lewis : The chronicles of Narnia / Chronicles of Narnia edited by Michelle Ann Abate & Lance Weldy. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - xiii, 210 p. ; 23 cm. - New casebooks .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- List of Contributors -- Introduction; M.A.Abate -- PART I: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS -- Collective Violence and Scapegoating in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; M.Green -- Turkish Delights and Sardines with Tea: Food in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; R.Towns -- Elements of Arthur in Lewis's Caspian Trilogy; M.Corpora -- PART II: APPLICATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS -- 'All That Rot': Picturing Education in C. S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia; K.Dorwick -- War and the Liminal Space: Situating The Chronicles of Narnia in the 20th Century Narrative of Trauma and Survival; N.Lewis -- C. S. Lewis's Manifold Mythopoeics: Towards a Reconsideration of Eschatological Time in the Construction of the Post-World Wars Fantasy Novel for Children; J.M.Sommers -- PART III: ADAPTATIONS AND MEDIATIONS -- The Author, the Movie, and the Marketing: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe and Early Reader Adaptations; R.Brock-Servias -- Textual Evolution(s) of Prince Caspian; L.Weldy -- Narnia Fans, Narnia Fan Cultures: C. S. Lewis and Digital New Media; N.Hamer -- PART IV: CONFLICTS AND CONTROVERSY -- Lewis and anti-Lewis: The Narnia Chronicles and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy; G.Bar-Hillel -- Dark Queen, Mixed-Race Kings, and Girls Whose Heads Have Something in Them: Lewis's Contemporary Stance on Race and Gender in The Chronicles of Narnia; D.Brown -- Boy-Girls and Girl-Beasts: The Gender Paradox in C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia; S.Rodriguez -- Annotated Bibliography -- Index.

"C. S. Lewis's seven-book series about the fictional land of Narnia has become an irrefutable classic. This collection of new, wide-ranging essays explores the past, present and future importance of the Narnia books, providing the most current, and some of the most cutting-edge, research about this popular fantasy series"--

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Lewis, C. S. 1898-1963. Chronicles of Narnia.


LITERARY COLLECTIONS / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's Literature.
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Literary Criticism & Collections.

PR6023.E926 / C532355 2012

823/.912 HIL 2008