{"id":1162,"date":"2009-06-29T14:58:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T14:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2009-06-29T14:58:05","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T14:58:05","slug":"on-fairy-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2009\/06\/29\/on-fairy-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"On Fairy-Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to dig a bit deeper into Tolkien lately. It seems that every mention of him I find in books and blogs finds him quoting material from a lecture he gave in 1939 titled &#8220;On Fairy-Stories&#8221;. The outline goes something like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are fairy stories? How are they different from other sorts of stories, drama, and literature? (Hint: It doesn&#8217;t have anything to do with whether they have fairies in them or not)<\/li>\n<li>What is their origin? Where did they come from? How have they evolved? What is the connectio to myth?<\/li>\n<li>Why are they especially associated with Children? Perhaps they should not be.<\/li>\n<li>In what ways to they differ and overlap with elements of &#8220;Fantasy&#8221; literature?<\/li>\n<li>Are they escapism? Yes, but that&#8217;s not actually a bad thing.<\/li>\n<li>There is joy to be found in them. Joy of the same sort C.S. Lewis speaks of in Surprised by Joy. Why is that? It is tied to Tolkien&#8217;s theology of God the creator, mankind his image bearers, and his philosophy of creation and &#8220;sub-creation&#8221; as he calls it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good stuff. I have a lot of passages bookmarked for blogging in the next couple of days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to dig a bit deeper into Tolkien lately. It seems that every mention of him I find in books and blogs finds him quoting material from a lecture he gave in 1939 titled &#8220;On Fairy-Stories&#8221;. The outline goes something like: What are fairy stories? How are they different from other sorts of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2009\/06\/29\/on-fairy-stories\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Fairy-Stories&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}