Review article

CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS’S FANTASTIC STORY

Maja Verdonik

Abstract

The paper presents story The Lion, the Witch and the wardrobe from series Chronicles of Narnia, written by British author of the Irish origins Clive Staples Lewis (1898.-1963.) with the aim to establish the singuliarities of Lewis’s fantasy story. There are considered selected literature and sources that without exception speak about Christian subtext, which Clive Staples Lewis incorporated in all of narnian stories, as well as about the elements of various genres alongside fantasy, such as fairy tale, myth, animal stories and romance. In the story The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Clive Staples Lewis used the structure of the fantasy story, marked in the tradition of English children’s literature with Lewis Carroll’s fantasy stories Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice found there. As esteemed scholar and expert for English medieval and renaissance literature Lewis included in his story elements of romance and Christian subtext, influenced by his religious believes that he intended to pass to the young readers as a form of their reading pre-baptism.

Keywords

fantasy; Clive Staples Lewis; The Lion, the Witch and the wardrobe

Hrčak ID:

121863

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/121863

Publication date:

21.1.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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