THE TRUTH BEHIND THE FANTASY IN THE WORKS OF C.S LEWIS THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA.

Abstract

Literature is a performative art and each reading is a performance where the literary text has no definite significance. Literary meaning is created by an interplay between the reader and the text. Consequently, modern theories are the most important tool in the literature for interpreting the text, it always gives a different interpretation while readers read the text. Readers always close the gap in the text given by the author with any new purpose. Readers often also become authors when they interpret the text with word choices, textual proofs and a person who gives meaning to the text. Reader’s Response criticism is a school of modern literary theory that focuses on the reader or audience and their experience of a literary work, in contrast to other schools and theories that focus attention primarily on the author or the content and form of the work. Reader-response theory recognizes the reader as an active agent who imparts “real existence” to the work and completes its meaning through interpretation. Reader-response criticism argues that literature should be viewed as a performing art in which each reader creates his or her own, possibly unique, text-related performance. The approach avoids subjectivity or essentialism in descriptions produced through its recognition that reading is determined by textual and cultural constraints. As such, this research focuses on the link between the fantasy writing and modernism.