Deep Magic and Modern Magic

• Authors: Teodora Ghivirigă
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

deep magic; modern magic; science; wisdom

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Linguaculture
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 2014
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 79-85

Dates

published

2014-12-01

online

2015-04-23

Contributors

author

Teodora Ghivirigă

• Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/lincu-2015-0024