Anna Blanch on a hermeneutical understanding of Narnia
On Friday 5 May at Lewis for Scholars, Anna Blanch, soon to be a PhD candidate at the Australian National University, gave a paper on a hermeneutical understanding of The Chronicles of Narnia. We are pleased to be able to reproduce it here as a free download from the conference:
The Chronicles of Narnia sees an apparent collision between Lewis's Christian worldview, his Platonism and his utilisation of pagan mythology. Understanding and analysing the coherence of these apparently disparate tracks of theoretical thought is integral to applying a heuristic approach in which Lewis's critical assumptions are foremost and enables construction of the approach that he intended the reader to take in relation to their reading of the series.
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