http://twoskeletons.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] twoskeletons.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] whynot 2009-12-09 01:41 am (UTC)

Yeah, and I don't think myth has to be believed in to be real. I'm not talking about myth as something explicitly religious (though it can be), but more like a collective subconscious thing. Something both urtext and subtext, ummmm like if we're focusing on something on just the smell instead of the thing that smells? Oh lord, defining myth, ALWAYS FUN (NOT) (MAYBE A LITTLE).

I'm no Arthurian scholar or medievalist at all, so I'm really not sure. Fanonically there are, which is interesting, and maybe that's where my paper should lie. Like, even when the ficcers are writing about Narnia, the Arthurian tropes are so inescapable that we end up using them to make richer stories. Maybe it's not about how Arthuriana influences Narnia, so much as how it influences Narnia fandom?

Post a comment in response:

This account has disabled anonymous posting.
If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting