In reading great literature, I become a thousand men, and yet remain myself.

Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see.

Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action and in knowing, I transcend myself.

And I'm never more myself than when I do.

This is Pints with Jack Season 8, episode 32.

Narnia Month.

Literary Narnia.

After hours with Dr. Gem Bloomfield. Welcome friends to Pints with Dr. Jem Bloomfield.

Welcome friends to Pints with Jack.

This season we read Peralandra, but this month is Narnia Month, and today we're with Dr.

Jim Bloomfield discussing two books he's written about taking a literary journey through the Narniad.

Dr. Jem Bloomfield is an assistant professor of literature at the University of Nottingham

and a reader in the Church of England.

His research interests focus around detective fiction, the reception histories of Shakespeare

and the Bible and fantasy.

He's the author of several books, but today we're going to be focusing on the two Narnian ones.

Pards in the snow, a literary journey through the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,

and Gold on the Horizon, a literary journey through Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

Dr. Jen Bloomfield, welcome to the show.

Thanks so much for inviting me.

Not at all.

Now, I've had your two books on my bedside table

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