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C. S. Lewis, when asked about the origins of his world-famous Chronicles of Narnia stated: „I think I had been having a good many dreams of lions about that time. Apart from that, I don't know where the Lion came from or why He came.” („It All Began With A Picture”) Although in these words the Inkling renounces any conscious references, on comparison with The Place of the Lion (1931) by his friend, Charles Williams, it is clear that the book has provided Lewis with much inspiration and material to reuse in the whole of his Narnian cycle. However, the elements he borrowed, most notably the lion, have undergone significant changes. In my paper I would like to focus on the transformation of Williams’s Lion into Lewis’s Aslan. I am going to apply Bloom’s theory of the anxiety of influence, wherein Charles Williams will be positioned as the strong writer in relation to whom Lewis constructs his intertextual answer, asserting his own space as a writer on the literary scene and challenging Williams’s powerful presence in his life.
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C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia are, for many, the gateway to thinking about Christianity from an early age. Their importance to Anglophone Christianity has been highlighted by such luminaries as Rowan Williams and Alister McGrath. They have been analysed by many notable scholars and Spirit-filled servants of God who have noted their polystrate complexity. This dissertation seeks to investigate the hypothesis that each book addresses issues faced by one major typology of candidates for salvation and alternative methodologies of clearing these objections. This study will focus solely on The Chronicles of Narnia, and not on Lewis’ other works of fiction or non-fiction, except where these offer an insight to authorial intent or personal theology. It will identify and present evidence for the existence of a theme of apologetic typologies and not major on the other levels of meaning such as the story, Christian subtext, astrological backdrop or deadly sin motifs. These aspects may enter into the discussion and be assessed alongside, where a discussion thereof would be valuable to the matter at hand, but it will be a minor, introductory treatment rather than a central area of study. The primary source for this study will be The Chronicles themselves. It will seek to test the apologetic typology theory and add it to the many other theories in the field of what might be termed Narniology. This will be useful for those who wish to read the books for clues to Lewis’ lasting popularity as a Christian apologist. It may also have an application in learning how or whom to evangelise.
The African Lion: A Long History of Interdisciplinary Research
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Over the past 50 years, lion research has covered a wide range of interdisciplinary topics involving extensive collaborations with scientists from over a dozen different fields. These collaborations have not only led to greater scientific understanding of disease dynamics, impacts of sport hunting on lion populations, and the interactions of lions and their prey, but also resulted in a large-scale disease-control program in rural Tanzania, new hunting policies in several African countries, widespread adoption of camera-traps as a conservation-management tool, new statistical and economic approaches to broadscale conservation approaches, and innovative local-level conservation interventions.
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This chapter offers a reading of Green Lion, a novel by contemporary South African writer Henrietta Rose-Innes. The novel deals with pressing issues in world-ecology, revealing dialectical interconnections between historical processes of extinction, conservation and the commodification of natural forms. The story revolves around the project to revive an extinct native species, the dark-maned Cape lion, through a breeding programme in Cape Town zoo. The project, however, is destined to fail and living lions are in the end replaced by a taxidermy collection. The failures of conservation, however, do not exhaust Rose-Innes’s narrative, which also presents non-synchronic temporalities—anticipatory, utopian and mystical—driving the clandestine activities of the Green Lion, a secret society of animal lovers.