Deep Magic and Modern Magic

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Teodora Ghivirigă

Abstract

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 Terry Pratchett-suggest as a more propitious alternative.

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Ghivirigă, T. “Deep Magic and Modern Magic”. Linguaculture, vol. 5, no. 2, Dec. 2014, pp. 79-85, doi:10.1515/lincu-2015-0024.
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