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Review Of Milton, Spenser And The Chronicles Of Narnia: Literary Sources For The C. S. Lewis Novels, Nikolay Epplée May 2023

Review Of Milton, Spenser And The Chronicles Of Narnia: Literary Sources For The C. S. Lewis Novels, Nikolay Epplée

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Elizabeth Baird Hardy, Milton, Spenser and The Chronicles of Narnia: Literary Sources for the C. S. Lewis Novels (Jefferson, NC, 2007) vii + 188 pages. $33.25. ISBN 9780786428762.


Review Of The A-Z Of C. S. Lewis: An Encyclopedia Of His Life, Thought, And Writings, Doug Jackson May 2023

Review Of The A-Z Of C. S. Lewis: An Encyclopedia Of His Life, Thought, And Writings, Doug Jackson

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Colin Duriez, The A-Z of C. S. Lewis: An Encyclopedia of His Life, Thought, and Writings (Oxford, 2013). 352 pages. $24.95. ISBN 9780745955865.


Review Of C. S. Lewis, Poetry, And The Great War 1914-1918, Jos Vanachter May 2023

Review Of C. S. Lewis, Poetry, And The Great War 1914-1918, Jos Vanachter

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of John Bremer, C. S. Lewis, Poetry, and The Great War 1914-1918 (Lanham, MD, 2012). 244 pages. $39.99. ISBN 9780739171523.


Review Essay: C. S. Lewis And His Circle: Essays And Memoirs From The C. S. Lewis Society, David Russell Mosley, Arend Smilde, Bruce R. Johnson May 2023

Review Essay: C. S. Lewis And His Circle: Essays And Memoirs From The C. S. Lewis Society, David Russell Mosley, Arend Smilde, Bruce R. Johnson

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Three reviews of Roger White, Judith Wolfe, and Brendan N. Wolfe, eds., C. S. Lewis and His Circle: Essays and Memoirs from the C. S. Lewis Society (Oxford, 2015). 273 pages. $29.95. ISBN 9780190214340.


“Nothing Beautiful Hides Its Face”: The Hiddenness Of Esther In C. S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces, John Anthony Dunne May 2023

“Nothing Beautiful Hides Its Face”: The Hiddenness Of Esther In C. S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces, John Anthony Dunne

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

C. S. Lewis’ last and arguably best novel, Till We Have Faces, is an impressively nuanced revision and recasting of Apuleius’ short tale of Cupid and Psyche, Books 4–6 of The Golden Ass. Although this ancient myth was the main source for Till We Have Faces, inspiration was no doubt gained from many places. One such influence, previously unnoted, was the biblical book of Esther. This study will note some of the key places where the influence of Esther is detectable, in particular Lewis’ choice of the name “Istra.” This is followed by an investigation into why Esther may have …


How Much Does That Hideous Strength Owe To Charles Williams?, Charles A. Huttar May 2023

How Much Does That Hideous Strength Owe To Charles Williams?, Charles A. Huttar

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

do not intend here anything so ambitious as a comprehensive study of the question posed by my title. My purpose in this essay is threefold: in the first section, to augment the case that has been made for one debt to Williams; in the second, to narrow down the demonstrable range of Williams’ influence in another area, that of the Arthurian material in That Hideous Strength; and finally, to point out a commonality in their theory of history that can probably not, however, be considered an instance of oneway influence, but rather an agreement that reflects their shared Christian worldview. …


Review Of The Faun’S Bookshelf: C. S. Lewis On Why Myth Matters, William Gentrup May 2023

Review Of The Faun’S Bookshelf: C. S. Lewis On Why Myth Matters, William Gentrup

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Charlie W. Starr, The Faun’s Bookshelf: C. S. Lewis on Why Myth Matters (Kent, Ohio: Black Squirrel Books, 2018). 181 pages. $16.95. ISBN 9781606353493.


Review Of Inklings Of Truth: Essays To Mark The Anniversaries Of C. S. Lewis And J. R. R. Tolkien, Bruce R. Johnson May 2023

Review Of Inklings Of Truth: Essays To Mark The Anniversaries Of C. S. Lewis And J. R. R. Tolkien, Bruce R. Johnson

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Paul Shimpton, ed., Inklings of Truth: Essays to Mark the Anniversaries of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, Grandpont Papers 3 (Oxford: Grandpont House, 2018). 102 pages. $10.09. ISBN 9780952216728.


Review Of The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy Sayers And Her Oxford Circle Remade The World For Women, Crystal Hurd May 2023

Review Of The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy Sayers And Her Oxford Circle Remade The World For Women, Crystal Hurd

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Mo Moulton, The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women (New York: Basic Books, 2019). 335 pages. $32.00. ISBN 97815416444472.


Review Of Mythopoeic Narnia: Memory, Metaphor, And Metamorphoses In The Chronicles Of Narnia, Charlie W. Starr May 2023

Review Of Mythopoeic Narnia: Memory, Metaphor, And Metamorphoses In The Chronicles Of Narnia, Charlie W. Starr

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Salwa Khoddam, Mythopoeic Narnia: Memory, Metaphor, and Metamorphoses in The Chronicles of Narnia (Hamden, Connecticut: Winged Lion Press, 2011). 272 pages. $16.98. ISBN 9781936294114.


Review Of The Fame Of C. S. Lewis: A Controversialist’S Reception In Britain And America, Brenton D. G. Dickieson May 2023

Review Of The Fame Of C. S. Lewis: A Controversialist’S Reception In Britain And America, Brenton D. G. Dickieson

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Stephanie L. Derrick, The Fame of C. S. Lewis: A Controversialist’s Reception in Britain and America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). 240 pages. $30.00. ISBN 9780198819448.


Review Of C. S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction, Josiah Peterson May 2023

Review Of C. S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction, Josiah Peterson

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of James Como, C. S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019). 160 pages. $11.95. ISBN 9780198828242.


Review Of The Lion In The Waste Land: Fearsome Redemption In The Work Of C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, And T. S. Eliot, Jonathan B. Himes May 2023

Review Of The Lion In The Waste Land: Fearsome Redemption In The Work Of C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, And T. S. Eliot, Jonathan B. Himes

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Janice Brown, The Lion in the Waste Land: Fearsome Redemption in the Work of C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and T. S. Eliot (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2018). xiv + 290 pages. $45.00. ISBN 9781606353387.


The Archangel Fragment And C. S. Lewis’S World-Building Project, Brenton D. G. Dickieson, Charlie W. Starr May 2023

The Archangel Fragment And C. S. Lewis’S World-Building Project, Brenton D. G. Dickieson, Charlie W. Starr

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

In this article, we argue that, from a few hints in the Bodleian archive and elsewhere, we have discovered C. S. Lewis’s singular attempt at an Archangelic sequel to The Screwtape Letters. By analyzing this small fragment and its contextual clues, we can hear the heaven-scented voice of this anti-Screwtape world. Through this discovery we can unlock hidden links among Lewis’s fiction project of the late 1930s and early 1940s and the ways he created the speculative worlds of those stories, including a spirit of playfulness and discovery, themes critical to his theological perspective, and potential links that draw his …


Review Of Tolkien, Enchantment And Loss: Steps On The Developmental Journey, Jessica F. Lee May 2023

Review Of Tolkien, Enchantment And Loss: Steps On The Developmental Journey, Jessica F. Lee

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of John Rosegrant, Tolkien, Enchantment and Loss: Steps on the Developmental Journey. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2022). 220 pages. $58.99. ISBN 9781606354353.


Review Of A Sense Of Tales Untold: Exploring The Edges Of Tolkien’S Literary Canvas, Lauren Spohn May 2023

Review Of A Sense Of Tales Untold: Exploring The Edges Of Tolkien’S Literary Canvas, Lauren Spohn

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Peter Grybauskas, A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien’s Literary Canvas (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2021). $55.00. 176 pages. ISBN 978606354308.


Review Of Mystical Perelandra: My Lifelong Reading Of C. S. Lewis And His Favorite Book, Crystal Hurd May 2023

Review Of Mystical Perelandra: My Lifelong Reading Of C. S. Lewis And His Favorite Book, Crystal Hurd

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of James Como, Mystical Perelandra: My Lifelong Reading of C. S. Lewis and His Favorite Book (Hamden, CT: Winged Lion Press, 2022). 148 pages. $16.99. ISBN 9781935688297.


Review Of Charles Williams And C. S. Lewis: Friends In Co-Inherence, Andrew Lazo May 2023

Review Of Charles Williams And C. S. Lewis: Friends In Co-Inherence, Andrew Lazo

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Paul Fiddes, Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis: Friends in Co-inherence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021). 432 pages. $115.00. ISBN 9780192845467.


C. S. Lewis And The Personal Opinion Fallacy, Jason Lepojärvi May 2023

C. S. Lewis And The Personal Opinion Fallacy, Jason Lepojärvi

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Excerpt: "Authors sometimes become targets of critics who mistake the views expressed by their characters, plot, or atmosphere for the views held by the authors themselves. Consequently, as authors begin justifiably to fear that the opinions expressed in their art will be equated with their own real-life opinions, many begin censoring themselves, thus reducing diversity of perspective and diluting vigor of expression. The present essay reflects on this particular form of literary misreading and its contribution to other literary maladies....For reasons that relate to both the nature of imaginative literature and to Lewis as a writer, readers and critics of …


C. S. Lewis And The Historical Imagination, Jamin Metcalf, K. Alan Snyder May 2023

C. S. Lewis And The Historical Imagination, Jamin Metcalf, K. Alan Snyder

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

What role should the imagination play in historical inquiry? Much has been written about how Lewis’s understanding of the imagination influenced both his literary and apologetic work. However, very little has been said about how his view of the imagination influenced his work as a literary historian. Throughout Lewis’s career at both Oxford and Cambridge, he argued for a unique approach that privileged the role of the imagination both in the study and composition of history.


Review Of Oxford In English Literature: The Making, And Undoing, Of The English Athens, Stephen Barber Apr 2023

Review Of Oxford In English Literature: The Making, And Undoing, Of The English Athens, Stephen Barber

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of John Dougill, Oxford in English Literature: The Making, and Undoing, of the English Athens (Milton Keynes, 2010). xii + 379 pages. $14.55. ISBN: 9781438976839.


Review Of The Lion’S World: A Journey Into The Heart Of Narnia, Nikolay Epplée Apr 2023

Review Of The Lion’S World: A Journey Into The Heart Of Narnia, Nikolay Epplée

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Rowan Williams, The Lion’s World: A Journey into the Heart of Narnia (Oxford, 2012). 168 pages. $13.58. ISBN: 9780199975730.


Review Of C. S. Lewis And J. R. R. Tolkien, Crystal Hurd Apr 2023

Review Of C. S. Lewis And J. R. R. Tolkien, Crystal Hurd

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Jill Wheeler, C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien (Minneapolis, 2008). 24 pages each. $2.62 and $13.83. ISBN: 978-1604530773 and 978-1604530803.


Review Of Doors In The Air: C. S. Lewis And The Imaginative World, Brenton Dickieson Apr 2023

Review Of Doors In The Air: C. S. Lewis And The Imaginative World, Brenton Dickieson

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Anna Slack, ed., Doors in the Air: C. S. Lewis and the Imaginative World (Vitoria, Spain, 2010). 258 pages. $16.11. ISBN: 9788493836054.


Review Of Light: C. S. Lewis’S First And Final Short Story, Jason Fisher Apr 2023

Review Of Light: C. S. Lewis’S First And Final Short Story, Jason Fisher

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Charlie W. Starr, Light: C. S. Lewis’s First and Final Short Story (Hamden, CT, 2012). xi + 173 pages, including a Foreword by Walter Hooper. $14.99. ISBN: 9781936294213.


Review Of The Ideal Of Kingship In The Writings Of Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis And J. R. R. Tolkien, Holly Ordway Apr 2023

Review Of The Ideal Of Kingship In The Writings Of Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis And J. R. R. Tolkien, Holly Ordway

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Christopher Scarf, The Ideal of Kingship in the Writings of Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien (Cambridge, England, 2013). 202 pages. $50.00. ISBN: 9780227174012.


Review Of Heaven And Hell: Visions Of The Afterlife In The Western Poetic Tradition, Jared Lobdell Apr 2023

Review Of Heaven And Hell: Visions Of The Afterlife In The Western Poetic Tradition, Jared Lobdell

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Louis Markos, Heaven and Hell: Visions of the Afterlife in the Western Poetic Tradition (Eugene, 2013). xiv + 230 pages. $27.00. ISBN: 9781620327500.


Review Of Restoring Beauty: The Good, The True And The Beautiful In The Writings Of C. S. Lewis, Stephen Hayes Apr 2023

Review Of Restoring Beauty: The Good, The True And The Beautiful In The Writings Of C. S. Lewis, Stephen Hayes

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Louis A. Markos, Restoring Beauty: The Good, the True and the Beautiful in the Writings of C. S. Lewis (Downers Grove, IL, 2010). 215 pages. $20.00. ISBN: 0830857451.


Review Of The Soul Of C. S. Lewis: A Meditative Journey Through Twenty-Six Of His Best-Loved Writings, Bruce R. Johnson Apr 2023

Review Of The Soul Of C. S. Lewis: A Meditative Journey Through Twenty-Six Of His Best-Loved Writings, Bruce R. Johnson

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Wayne Martindale, Jerry Root, and Linda Washington, eds., The Soul of C. S. Lewis: A Meditative Journey through Twenty-Six of His Best-Loved Writings (Carol Stream, IL, 2010). xvi + 323 pages. $19.99. ISBN: 9781414325668.


Review Of C. S. Lewis: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet, Sharon Jebb Smith Apr 2023

Review Of C. S. Lewis: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet, Sharon Jebb Smith

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Alister McGrath, C. S. Lewis: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet (London, 2013). xvi + 431 pages. $24.99. ISBN: 9781444745528.