Open AccessDeep Magic and Modern Magic
Author(s) -
Teodora Ghivirigă
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
linguaculture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2285-9403
pISSN - 2067-9696
DOI - 10.1515/lincu-2015-0024
Subject(s) - magic (telescope) , criticism , art , literature , art history , philosophy , astronomy , physics
The paper discusses C. S. Lewis’ position on, and criticism of, magic vs. wisdom and the type of “fast” magic that the (post-)modern world has fallen prey to and ends by returning to the alternative that Lewis-and other writers such as his friend and contemporary J. R. R. Tolkien and more recent ones such as Tery Pratchett-suggest as a more propitious alternative