tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114873833839278910.post4240993938548138677..comments2023-08-26T06:24:00.597-06:00Comments on A Reasonable Imagination: Open Season on NarniaRobert Velardehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03665635776181855486noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114873833839278910.post-72251127948856357512008-09-12T22:11:00.000-06:002008-09-12T22:11:00.000-06:00Robert - I agree, trying to understand the Chronic...Robert - I agree, trying to understand the Chronicles, like nearly any piece of written work, it is best interpreted through the filter of the writer's life and times. Too easily do we take our own presuppositions about a book and try to make it conform to our agenda. <BR/><BR/>I've not read anywhere near the volume of material, written by C.S. Lewis, as you have. But, in what I have read and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114873833839278910.post-80291808972010956762008-09-11T16:50:00.000-06:002008-09-11T16:50:00.000-06:00Being a literary scholar, Lewis did indeed have a ...Being a literary scholar, Lewis did indeed have a very specialized definition of "allegory." An early success in his academic career is the book <I>The Allegory of Love</I> (1936). From his professional perspective, he denied Narnia was allegory. But to the layperson portions of the Narnia books do indeed come across as allegorical. This happens, for instance, in <I>The Lion, the Witch, and the Robert Velardehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03665635776181855486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114873833839278910.post-70540634167648048722008-09-11T16:18:00.000-06:002008-09-11T16:18:00.000-06:00I'm sure you've heard this one a thousand times, b...I'm sure you've heard this one a thousand times, but what is your take on the downplay of allegory by C.S. Lewis?<BR/><BR/>"If Aslan represented the immaterial Deity in the same way in which Giant Despair represents despair, he would be an allegorical figure. In reality, however, he is an invention giving an imaginary answer to the question, 'What might Christ become like if there really were a davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08071763988772047093noreply@blogger.com