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04606aam a2200553 i 4500 001 DC26AA2CA1FE11ED9BB60AE923ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230201010120 008 211113t20222022nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021053989 020 $a 0197626254 020 $a 9780197626252 035 $a (OCoLC)1287750470 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d DLC $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d YDX $d IAI $d ICW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR6023.E926 $b Z584 2022 082 00 $a 823/.912 $2 23/eng/20211201 100 1 $a Ball, Warwick, $e author. 245 10 $a East of the wardrobe : $b the unexpected worlds of C.S. Lewis / $c Warwick Ball. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a xv, 298 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-285) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Confessions of a reluctant Narniaphile -- Endless books : Herodotus to Robert Byron -- It all [perhaps] began with a picture : Narnia, Persian painting, and Pauline Baynes -- East of the wardrobe : the manners and customs of the modern Calormen -- On board the Dawn Treader : epic quests and fabulous voyages to the East -- Of this and other worlds : portals and alternative time, from the wardrobe to the Qu'ran -- Mere Christianity? Mere Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism and Sufism as well in Narnia? -- Farther up and farther in: messages within, beyond, and east of Narnia. 520 $a "This book teases out hitherto unrecognised Eastern aspects in and influences on C. S. Lewis' Narnia Chronicles. These include storylines, plots, themes, imagery and even cities and landscapes in the East, as well as the 'Persian' style of illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Although never having ventured East himself, Lewis wrote that 'I am the product of endless books,' and in recognising Eastern references - many only subconsciously intended by Lewis - it is possible to enter the rich world of books that Lewis lived and breathed all his life. And, perhaps less obviously, overhear the conversations he had with his fellow Inklings or that he might have overheard himself in an Oxford pub. Religious messages other than the obvious Christian find their way into Narnia, but so too does the Arabian Nights and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam as well as the other great Persian poets; great travellers from Herodotus and Marco Polo to T. E. Lawrence and Robert Byron are there, but so too are the great fictional travellers, Baron Munchausen, Gulliver, and Sindbad; themes borrowed from the great epics, from the Odyssey and Aeneid to the Kalevala and the Knight in the Panther's Skin, can also be found. Delve deeper and Christianity is there along with paganism, but so too are Zoroastrian, Manichaean and even Islamic messages. Ultimately they are a reflection of the complex intellectual world that Lewis inhabited, and of the wider social and intellectual climate of Oxford in the first half of the twentieth century"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Lewis, C. S. $q (Clive Staples), $d 1898-1963. $t Chronicles of Narnia. 600 10 $a Lewis, C. S. $q (Clive Staples), $d 1898-1963 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Lewis, C. S. $q (Clive Staples), $d 1898-1963 $x Knowledge and learning. 650 0 $a Narnia (Imaginary place) 650 0 $a English literature $x Asian influences. 650 0 $a Religion in literature. 650 0 $a English literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 6 $a Narnia (Lieu imaginaire) 650 6 $a Religion dans la littérature. 650 6 $a Littérature anglaise $y 20e siècle $x Histoire et critique. 600 17 $a Lewis, C. S. $q (Clive Staples), $d 1898-1963. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00029827 630 07 $a Chronicles of Narnia (Lewis, C. S.) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01778800 650 7 $a English literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00911989 650 7 $a English literature $x Asian influences. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00911998 650 7 $a Learning and scholarship. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00994857 650 7 $a Narnia (Imaginary place) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01032923 650 7 $a Religion in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01732559 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Online version: $a Ball, Warwick. $t East of the wardrobe $d New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022] $z 9780197626283 $w (DLC) 2021053990 941 $a 1 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20230201025330.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DC26AA2CA1FE11ED9BB60AE923ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b NIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search