![]() Ward’s argument for this connection is based on Samuel Alexander’s distinction between Enjoyment and Contemplation in Space, Time, and Deity, which indeed Lewis said was an essential distinction. Ward has three concluding chapters the most interesting is the argument of the antepenultimate, saying that the Lewis-Anscombe debate perhaps led Lewis to restate the thesis of Miracles as a children’s fantasy. ![]() Obviously, these set up the book’s approach. ![]() Ward has framed his argument with two opening chapters, the first of which argues that (1) Lewis was a secretive man and (2) he believed that literary romances should have special atmospheres or tones, beyond their plots (i.e., as he argued in “On Stories”). Of course, the Sun and the Moon are not today considered “planets,” but the Ptolemaic terminology is useful here. The most obvious reason for that qualifier basically is because the latter part of The Last Battle, in the New Narnia, is no longer Saturnine. Jupiter: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. ![]() Lewis, although keeping it a secret, used, one by one, the seven planets of medieval astronomy/astrology as artistic themes for the seven Narnian books-basically one planet per book: The thesis of Michael Ward’s Planet Narnia can be stated briefly: C.S. Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. ![]()
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