ENG234H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: C. S. Lewis, Ineffability
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Lucy feels like the end of winter: cannot put into words, ineffability, dreams where angelic figures appear, dream bring intimacy and imminence of the divine e. i. C. s. lewis: connection btw older and younger generation, but lose it somewhere along the way, nostalgia in older ppl, there"s a professor there who retained his childhood f. Susan and the older children don"t believe in lucy: outside vs. inside. Is narnia inside the wardrobe? a: they explore the house not the outside, moving further back, in the wardrobe and in narnia, her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back,, into the stillness and the darkness before time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation (179) d. i. Aslan putting the witch in her place: moving back to the origin of things, portal fantasy: need consistent world, fantasy world is contrasted f. i.
