A reader's guide through the wardrobe
A reader's guide through the wardrobe: exploring C. S. Lewis's classic story Leland Ryken, Marjorie Lamp Mead,
Publisher: Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, c2005.
ISBN: 0830832890
LCC: PR6023
Edition: (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-189) and index.
Pt. 1. A guided tour of The lion, the witch and the wardrobe -- 1.
Lucy looks into a wardrobe: how the story begins -- 2. What Lucy
found there: discovering more about the strange world -- 3. Edmund
and the wardrobe: characterization -- 4. Turkish delight: archetypes
-- 5. Back on this side of the door: how real is Narnia? -- 6. Into
the forest: worldmaking and the storyteller's art -- 7. A day with
the beavers: the good place motif -- 8. What happened after dinner:
images of good -- 9. In the witch's house: images of evil -- 10. The
spell begins to break: what readers like best in a story -- 11. Aslan
is nearer: the dynamics of the plot -- 12. Peter's first battle: the
romance genre -- 13. Deep magic from the dawn of time: the uses of
magic -- 14. The triumph of the witch: parallels to the passion story
-- 15. Deeper magic from before the dawn of time: the genre of fairy
tale -- 16. What happened about the statues: the role of myth -- 17.
The hunting of the white stag: the happy ending as narrative pattern
and spiritual reality -- 18. Retrospective: putting it all together
-- Pt. 2. Narnian backgrounds -- 19. How the Narnian books came to be
-- 20. Reception history of The lion, the witch and the wardrobe --
21. The Christian vision of The lion, the witch and the wardrobe --
22. A brief biography of C. S. Lewis -- App. What is the correct
order in which to read the Chronicles of Narnia?
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