Thursday, April 23, 2015
Jacques Coulardeau at Academia.edu (22)
A CONTRADICTORY BACKDROP FOR C.S. LEWIS
MARTYRDOM VERSUS
EUGENISM
Dr Jacques
COULARDEAU
UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LILLE
FACULTÉ DES LETTRES ET DES SCIENCES HUMAINES
Colloque C.S. LEWIS - 2-3
juin 2011
C.S. LEWIS & THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA
BBC REWRITING AND ADAPTATIONS
RADIO AND TV
And other films
Dr Jacques
COULARDEAU
All Amazon reviews of CS
Lewis’s Narnia Chronicles
and various adaptations for
TV and the cinema
A CONTRADICTORY BACKDROP FOR
C.S. LEWIS
MARTYRDOM VERSUS EUGENISM
I would like to say from the very start that I will only
consider The Chronicles of Narnia
in their seven volumes (1950-1956), and the four BBC adaptations. So I will not
consider the various cinema adaptations and the other works by C.S. Lewis
(1898-1963).The second thing I want to be
very clear about is that I am not going to psychoanalyze neither the
author nor The Chronicles.
It would be interesting to do so from a certain point of view. This is not mine
here.
I will concentrate on the political and ideological model that can
be found in The Chronicles. But I want to be clear
about one thing before starting. For me children’s literature is just as mature
as any other form and type of literature and it deserves to be analyzed exactly
the same way as any other fiction. We do not have to suspend our disbelief but
as C.S. Lewis says himself: “You cannot know, you can only believe or not.”
# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 2:24 PM 
