Dragons & Angels: World-Making in Lewis and Tolkien w/ Dr. David C. Downing
Wade Center
The Four Types of Dream Fantasies
There's one called the intrusion fantasy where something from the imaginative world of danger and terror and wonder breaks into our world. The fourth is dream fantasies where it feels like all the rules are ever changeable and fluid. In Narnia, there's a certain inner logic that once you know you're in Narnia things work a certain way. But even the children's stories have more irrational elements.
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