What No Narnia Trailer Can Show You
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What No Narnia Trailer Can Show You
"Is Narnia simply a nice collection of stories about a faraway land, or is something deeper going on?
Even Tolkien had his doubts about C.S. Lewis' mix of myth, fairy tale, and literary tradition in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Professor Michael Ward looks at Lewis' own answer to this question in Lewis' essay on the "Kappa element".
Lewis argues that the best stories give us a whole world to breathe in, not just a series of events. And like the air we breathe, it works best when we don't notice it.
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