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Planet Narnia : The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis
by Ward, Michael
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- Hardcover
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- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0195313879
- ISBN 13
- 9780195313871
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About This Item
Oxford: Oxford University Press. Very Good/Very Good. 2008. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0195313879 The index states "A photo gallery follows page 126" there is no photo gallery included in this volume. Dust jacket complete in a clear protective sleeve. Original grey cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership inscription. xii (3) 347 pages clean and tight. For over half a century, scholars have laboured to show that C. S. Lewis's famed but apparently disorganised Chronicles of Narnia have an underlying symbolic coherence, pointing to such possible unifying themes as the seven sacraments, the seven deadly sins, and the seven books of Spenser's Faerie Queene. None of these explanations has won general acceptance and the structure of Narnia's symbolism has remained a mystery. Michael Ward has finally solved the enigma. In Planet Narnia he demonstrates 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 Drawing on the whole range of Lewis's writings (including previously unpublished drafts of the Chronicles), Ward reveals how the Narnia stories were designed to express the characteristics of the seven medieval planets-Jupiter, Mars, Sol, Luna, Mercury, Venus, and Saturn-planets which Lewis described as `spiritual symbols of permanent value' and `especially worthwhile in our own generation.' Using these seven symbols, Lewis secretly constructed the Chronicles so that in each book the plot-line, the ornamental details, and, most important, the portrayal of the Christ-figure of Asian, all serve to communicate the governing planetary personality. The cosmological theme of each Chronicle is what Lewis called `the kappa element in romance,' the atmospheric essence of a story, everywhere present but nowhere explicit. The reader inhabits this atmosphere and thus imaginatively gains connaitre knowledge of the spiritual character which the tale was created to embody. Planet Narnia is a ground-breaking study that will provoke a major revaluation not only of the Chronicles but of Lewis's whole literary and theological outlook. Ward uncovers a much subtler writer and thinker than has previously been recognised, one whose central interests were hiddenness, immanence, and knowledge by acquaintance. .
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-327) and indexes
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- Bookseller
- CHARLES BOSSOM (GB)
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- Title
- Planet Narnia : The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis
- Author
- Ward, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0195313879
- ISBN 13
- 9780195313871
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- LEWIS, C, S, (CLIVE, STAPLES)
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