C.S. Lewis and Christian postmodernism : word, image, and beyond / Kyoko Yuasa ; foreword by Bruce L. Edwards.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : harbinger of Christian postmodernism -- Philosopher of Christian postmodernism -- Novelist of Christian postmodernism -- Pre-historic magician awakens in the modernist age -- Medieval paradise : east, west, and beyond -- Re-writing mythology : Greco-Roman and Norse.

Employing a postmodernist literary approach, this book identifies C.S. Lewis both as an antimodernist and as a Christian postmodernist who tells the story of the gospel to twentieth- and twenty-first-century readers. Lewis is popularly known as an able Christian apologetic writer, talented in explaining Christian beliefs in simple, logical terms. But his fictional works feature expressions that erect ambiguous borders between nonfiction and fiction, an approach equivalent to those typical in postmodernist literature. Whereas postmodernist literature is full of many small micronarratives that.

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