Seeing through other eyes – C.S. Lewis

I love this quote from C.S. Lewis’s An Experiment in Criticism (1961), which is easily applicable to film as well as literature:

This, so far as I can see, is the specific value or good of literature as Logos; it admits us to experiences other than our own. They are not, any more [...]

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Scaring kids

Some quotes from Lewis and Tolkien on fairy tales. [...]

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The hidden foundations of C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia

I wasn’t able to see The Narnia Code on BBC One yesterday, but I watched and enjoyed it this evening. Directed by Norman Stone, it profiles the discovery of Michael Ward who, while working on his PhD on Lewis, stumbled onto a secret no one had ever seen before. He was reading Lewis’s poem [...]

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