XPost: alt.literature, rec.arts.books, alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Sat, 5 Aug 2023 09:10:58 -0700 (PDT), Russ Dudrey   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Saturday, August 5, 2023 at 11:01:20?AM UTC-5, Russ Dudrey wrote:   
   >> > > Try actually reading Lewis. "The Pilgrim's Regress" is an allegory.   
   >> > > The Space Trilogy and "Narnia" are not. He complained, by the way,   
   >> > > about people who couldn't see that.   
      
   >> > Try keeping up. "The Great Divorce" is.   
   >> > ...and both Space and Narnia remain quite allegorical.   
      
   No, the last two are not really allegorical.   
      
   One can see parallels between Calormene supremacy in "Prince Caspian"   
   and White Supremacy in the USA, for example, but there isn't the kind   
   of one-to-one correspondence that one finds in true allegory.   
      
   The is a contrast between racism on earth and the lack of speciesism   
   on Malacandra, but that is even less like allegory.   
      
   C.s. Lewis as a literature professor knew what allegory was, but it   
   seems that most people don't.   
      
      
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