Perception, Disappearance, Transmission in Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia Based on Virilio's Theory of Dromology
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سانیا بیات
1
(ادبیات انگلیسی)
حسن شهابی
2
(گروه زبان انگلیسی دانشکده ادبیات و علوم انسانی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد کرمان)
Fatemeh Bornaki
3
(Department of English Literature, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran.)
Keywords: Perception, Disappearance, Transmission, Dromology, Virilio,
Abstract :
The purpose of this essay is to investigate Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia based on Virilio’s theory. Virilio's theory of dromology shows how the human being's viewpoint is shifted by the increase in speed, and how this matter engenders otherness and subjectivity leading towards a panoptical power. One might say that the future robots are also presented in Lewis's stories: it is the contention of this study that the robots from the other world are the very human beings in the future which are brought closer by the medium of the other devices from the future, which is sweeping the time limitations, through velocity. Lewis's characters act as mirrors to the readers, as a visual equipment to examine oneself, reflecting the reader's own image and the image of their wishes being fulfilled through their researches and innovations. Lewis has explained how the worldview of these characters transfer them into creatures other than what they have been, for what differentiates self from other is the viewpoint through which the world is seen. Lewis's characters can be seen as the representatives of the society. Since the main argument of this essay is to depict the characters of the series are cyborg and live in a cyborg discourse, the principles of panopticon discourse must be used to support and prove the argument. The characters seem to be teleologically purposeful, but their purposes are negatively woven with the negative facets of human being.
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