Alan Garner’s Elidor: The “Anti-Narnian fantasy”?
British fantasy writer Alan Garner has referred to his novel Elidor as "THE anti-Narnian fantasy," though he says this was done unconsciously. In this article, I explore why Garner positioned his work as the antithesis to C.S. Lewis's fantasy novels, and argue that in many ways it in fact complement...
| Publicado en: | Mythlore Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 201 - 216 |
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