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The Process Of Salvation In Pearl And The Great Divorce, Amber Dunai
The Process Of Salvation In Pearl And The Great Divorce, Amber Dunai
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
Analyzes the structural, aesthetic, and thematic parallels between C.S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce and the Middle English dream vision Pearl. By exploring the tension between worldly and heavenly conceptions of justice, value, and possession in The Great Divorce and Pearl, this study demonstrates Lewis’s skill at utilizing and updating medieval source material in order to respond to twentieth-century problems.
Myth Maker, Unicorn Maker: C.S. Lewis And The Reshaping Of Medieval Thought, Chad Wriglesworth
Myth Maker, Unicorn Maker: C.S. Lewis And The Reshaping Of Medieval Thought, Chad Wriglesworth
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
Deals with Lewis’s use of medieval legends and religious symbolism of the unicorn in two versions of a poem about the Ark and in The Last Battle and The Great Divorce.
C.S. Lewis's Prufrockian Vision In The Great Divorce, Charles A. Huttar
C.S. Lewis's Prufrockian Vision In The Great Divorce, Charles A. Huttar
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
Examines the influence of Eliot’s early poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” on Lewis’s dream vision fantasy The Great Divorce.
Immortal Horrors And Everlasting Splendours: C.S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters And The Great Divorce, Douglas Loney
Immortal Horrors And Everlasting Splendours: C.S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters And The Great Divorce, Douglas Loney
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
Sees Screwtape and The Great Divorce as constituting “something like a sub-genre within the Lewis canon.” Both have explicit religious intention, were written during WWII, and use a “rather informal, episodic structure.” Analyzes the different perspectives of each work, and their treatment of the themes of Body and Spirit, Time and Eternity, and Love.
C.S. Lewis' The Great Divorce And The Medieval Dream Vision, Robert Boeing
C.S. Lewis' The Great Divorce And The Medieval Dream Vision, Robert Boeing
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
Discusses the genre of the medieval dream vision, with summaries of some of the best known (and their precursors). Analyzes The Great Divorce as “a Medieval Dream Vision in which [Lewis] redirects the concerns of the entire genre.”
Some Reflections On The Great Divorce Of C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield
Some Reflections On The Great Divorce Of C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
Praises The Great Divorce because in it the two sides of the author—“the atomically rational Lewis and mythopoeic Lewis—I will not say united, but they do at least join hands.” Cogent argument is combined with “vividly imagined” narrative and descriptive imagery.