Re: C.S. Lewis's Narnia is not an allegory
"Mr. Chang Man-wai" <[email protected]>
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On 8/16/2026 11:43 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:
> Seen recently on Facebook:
>
> by Jeremy Rios
> ....
> to Minotaurs. In others, Tolkien is maddened by Lewis’s liberal use of
> allegory, while Lewis appears carefree and careless about what he has
> ....
> Narnia is not an allegory. It is something very different.
> ....
> Already I can hear objections, “But Aslan is an allegory for Christ,
> ....
> Let’s start at the very beginning: genre. For Lewis, Allegory is a
> very specific, very specialized genre of literature. We know this for
> a fact because Lewis himself wrote an allegory, the ....
"allegory"? You meant court documents including
verdicts that often obfuscate human names? :)
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