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Abstract The chronicles of Narnia is now one of the most read classics in English. Many anthroponyms, toponyms, animals, plants, and landscapes of the world of Narnia have become culturally specific items. The encyclopedic readings of C. S. Lewis, along with his very diverse intellectual and literary inspirations and sources, add more to this cultural particularity of the CN. Besides the numerous academic studies carried out as regards the CN and its implications for various academic disciplines, there are many online forums, blogs, and websites dedicated to the readers and fans of the written text or the film adaptations of this novel series. So, the CN now constitutes a point of reference for many elements with resonance in the public, sociocultural sphere. However, these elements belong to the culture of Narnia, so to speak, as much as they belong to any Western-based multicultural framework drawing on various ancient, medieval, and modern sociocultural contexts. |