Alan Garner’s Elidor: The “Anti-Narnian fantasy”?

Authors

Laura N. Van Dyke, Trinity Western UniversityFollow

Abstract

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 complements rather than contradicts the vision Lewis conveys.

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