Critical Essays on C.S. Lewis, Page 4George Watson Scolar Press, 1992 - 284 pages Lewis was a critical theorist at a time when theory was unfashionable, and his theory of narrative, especially, has dropped from view in recent years. This volume, edited by a colleague of C.S. Lewis, traces his critical reputation from his earliest days to his death in 1963. |
Contents
General editors preface | 1 |
J A W Bennett 1965 The humane medievalist Cambridge University | 52 |
The Allegory of Love 1936 | 79 |
Copyright | |
1 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
academic admiration adultery Allegory of Love Andreas argument believe bower of bliss C S Lewis C. S. Lewis Cambridge chapter character Chaucer Chrétien Christian classical conception course courtly love culture doctrine Elizabethan English Literature English studies epic essay ethical fact Faerie Queene feel garden of Adonis Grail Hamlet Hideous Strength human humanists idea imaginative interest J. R. R. Tolkien kind learning lecture less Lewis's literary criticism literary history living Magdalen matter meaning medieval Middle Ages Milton mind modern moral myth nature never Old Western Paradise Lost passion Perelandra perhaps philosophical poem poet poetic poetry Preface to Paradise Professor Lewis prose reader Renaissance Review romantic Satan scholars scholarship seems sense Shakespeare Sixteenth Century Spenser story style sublime sure theology thing thought tion tradition Troilus troubadours true whole William Empson Williams words writing wrote