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Ith the modern debate over magic in Truth Fantasy Epub / children’s literature I discuss the seven typical attacks on fiction and the seven often used defenses of it While each of these writers offers ideas which go beyond the typical arguments by which Christians have historically defended fiction the one thing they have in common is that they champion the paradoxical idea that in imagining the untrue writers offer uniue access to truth This idea is a significant contribution to the on going Christian debate over fiction I examine how these authors’ ideas about fantasy fiction form a paradigm that considers the relationship of truth and fiction and that can be used as a kind of literary criticism Having determined the authors’ ideas about what fairy tales are suppo.
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Truth Fantasy and ParadoxSed to do and how they should be read I then turn to the fairy tales written by the authors themselves I consider George MacDonald’s Adela Cathcart in light of the author’s theories about the spiritually healing aspects of fantasy G K Chesterton’s obsession with fairy tales is examined next particularly how he claimed the fairy tale motif as a source and summit of much of his philosophy The Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis are examined in light of Lewis’s ideas about fairy tale pleasures and violence as well as his standards for literary criticism as outlined in An Experiment in Criticism which place a high value on form and structure This project was named a Dissertation of Note by the journal Children's Literature in Even impressive it can be understood by non academics.