RELI 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: E. Nesbit, Lewis Carroll, Hogwarts
6 Sep 2016
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Who would you think of in the early 20th century as a fantasy author who may have inspired these authors: Taught logic and math at university and the books are lled with logical puzzles. Religion creates an alternate world to explore themes of death, loss, and human relationships with the gods. Ancient egyptian book of the dead is imaginative literature. Narnia has a larger scope, but still nothing compared to tolkien. Tolkien thought narnia was sloppy and lewis thought middle-earth was snobby. Similar to how alice gets to wonderland, is the transportation between worlds in harry potter and narnia. Truth is the power that rests on the boundary between two worlds. If you succeed in making people believe in imaginary worlds you have already taken control of them. So the author and the imaginary world begin to control you a bit. A stories is a series and imagined events that occur in an imagined world.
