"An Experiment in Criticism" by C.S. Lewis
Wade Center
The Unlitery Person
CS Lewis was afraid that plot was taking over as the reason people read novels. He's trying to say that someone who's just obsessed with plot is very much like the literary elites that are obsessed with the moral, the goodness that we can extract out of a text. So both are limited readings. And that's why he's saying you need to first receive a work of art. That's why he brings up painting and even myth and fantasy. But in Voice the Dawn Treader, the Pevancies are looking at a picture of a boat and they say, Oh, I'd like it because it reminds me of a Narnian boat. The children after all? They are absolute
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