Fear, Fur, Fauna, Falling: Into Bed with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl2002vol12no1art1309Keywords:
symbolism, Narnia, performance art, C.S. Lewis, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, sleep, fearAbstract
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A note on the text. Alan Read's contribution to 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Fifty Years On' was a perfomance in which a version of this paper was delivered in conjunction with a synchronised video montage which variously extended, complemented and commented on the ideas he presented. While it is not possible to find a textual equivalent for the video-text and performance elements which played such a substantial role in the penultimate session of the day, we have tried to retain a flavour of the experience when translating performance into text.
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