| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 兒童文學研究所 === 97 === The Chronicles of Narnia, a landmark work of fantasy, written by C.S. Lewis, who was also an apologetic professor, is well-known to and popular with the readers. Looking back on the source of fantasy, we find that the western Christian thought did influence it a lot. The main motif of Christianity is to manifest the redemption from God. C.S. Lewis, employing the form and content of literature, loaded The Chronicles of Narnia with the thought of Christian redemption. Therefore, Christian thought is the best entry point to probe into the meaning and connotation of The Chronicles of Narnia.
There are three major parts of this study. The first part focuses on the related history of The Chronicles of Narnia, including the background of book-making, the writer’s bibliography, the causes and effects of book-publishing, and the construction and completion of the work. In the second part, the researcher explains and interprets the implied Christian symbols and analogies of The Chronicles of Narnia compared with the Bible. Furthermore, the researcher connects every symbol and analogy to find the process of redemption hidden behind the work. In the third part, the researcher takes Wayne C. Booth’s views about the author in The Rhetoric of Fiction as the ground discourse to investigate the writer’s voice in The Chronicles of Narnia, then through analyzing the contemporary objects and the figure of the writer of the work to make further judgments on the writing techniques and strategies and the purpose which C.S. Lewis applied to The Chronicles of Narnia.
Through the historical research of the work and the writer, along with the interpretations of the content with the concept of Christian redemption, and assisted by the analysis of the author’s writing techniques, the researcher makes an in-depth investigation about The Chronicles of Narnia. Moreover, this study also puts forth a new view to examine the Narnia created by C.S. Lewis and lets the readers be aware of the deep significance of Christian redemption.
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