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Review Of C.S. Lewis Goes To Hell: A Companion And Study Guide To The Screwtape Letters, Reggie Weems

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Review of: William O’Flaherty, C. S. Lewis Goes to Hell: A Companion and Study Guide to the Screwtape Letters (Hamden, Connecticut: Winged Lion Press, 2016). 281 pages. $14.99. ISBN 9781935688112.

Review Of The Inklings And King Arthur: J.R.R. Tolkein, Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis, And Owen Barfield On The Matter Of Britain, Tom Hillman

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Review of: Sørina Higgins, ed., The Inklings and King Arthur: J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield on the Matter of Britain (Berkeley, California: Apocryphile Press, 2017). 555 pages. $49.99. ISBN 9781944769895.

Review Of Flora Of Moddle-Earth: Plants Of J.R.R. Tolkein's Legendarium, Dominic J. Nardi Jr.

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Review of: Walter S. Judd and Graham A. Judd, Flora of Middle-Earth: Plants of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017). 424 pages. $43.95. ISBN 9780190276317.

"Raised By Implication": C.S. Lewis's Studies In Words And Historical And Moral Judgment, Philip Irving Mitchell

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C. S. Lewis wrote Studies in Words "to help students understand the lexical and historical meaning of certain common words, in effect, to assist “a more accurate reading of old books.” His choice of words, with their classical, European, and British contexts, is reflective of Lewis’s vocation as a professor of English literature. However, the chosen words also contain moral meanings. While the primary purpose of Studies is to train the reader in making conceptual distinctions, it also provides a kind of training in interpretive and historical responsibility that runs parallel with Lewis’s view of the natural moral law. The …

Review Of Speaking Of Jack: A C. S. Lewis Discussion Guide, Emily E. Redman

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Review of: Will Vaus, Speaking of Jack: A C. S. Lewis Discussion Guide (Hamden, CT: 2011). 278 pages. $15.00. ISBN: 9781936294121.

Review Of Mythopoeic Narnia: Memory, Metaphor, And Metamorphoses In The Chronicles Of Narnia, Cory Lowell Grewell

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Review of: Salwa Khoddam, Mythopoeic Narnia: Memory, Metaphor, and Metamorphoses in The Chronicles of Narnia (Hamden, CT, 2011). xiii + 259 pages. $16.99. ISBN: 9781936294114.

Review Of Toward The Gleam, Christine A. Colón

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Review of: T. M. Doran, Toward the Gleam (San Francisco, 2011). 467 pages, $24.95. ISBN: 9781586176334.

Review Of Revisiting Narnia: Fantasy, Myth And Religion In C. S. Lewis’S Chronicles, Joe R. Christopher

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Review of Shauna Caughey, ed., Revisiting Narnia: Fantasy, Myth and Religion in C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles (Dallas, 2005). 310 pages. $14.95. ISBN: 9781932100636.

Review Of Through A Glass Darkly: Suffering, The Sacred, And The Sublime In Literature And Theory, David Llewellyn Dodds

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Review of: Holly Faith Nelson, Lynn R. Szabo, and Jens Zimmermann, eds., Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory (Waterloo, ON, 2010), xxviii + 450 pages. Paperback: $42.95; ISBN: 9781554583058. Hardcover: $85.00; ISBN: 9781554581849

Review Of Inside The Voyage Of The ‘Dawn Treader’: A Guide To Exploring The Journey Beyond Narnia, Charles Franklyn Beach

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Review of Devin Brown, Inside The Voyage of the ‘Dawn Treader’: A Guide to Exploring the Journey Beyond Narnia (Grand Rapids, 2010). 249 pages. $12.99. ISBN: 9780801071652.

Review Of C. S. Lewis: His Literary Achievement, Suzanne Bray

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Review of: Colin Manlove. C. S. Lewis: His Literary Achievement (Cheshire, CT, 2010). 256 pages. $14.52. ISBN: 9781936294008

Review Imagining Mars: A Literary History, Sanford Schwartz

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Review of Robert Crossley, Imagining Mars: A Literary History (Middletown, CT:, 2011). xx + 353 pages. $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-8195–6927–1

Review Of The Magical World Of The Inklings, Matthew Dickerson

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Review of Gareth Knight, The Magical World of the Inklings (Cheltenham, 2010). $24.99. 304 pages. ISBN: 9781908011015 New and expanded edition, first published in 1990

Review Of C. S. Lewis: Latter-Day Truths In Narnia, Stephen Yandall

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Review of Marianna Richardson and Christine Thackeray, C. S. Lewis: Latter-Day Truths in Narnia (Springville, UT, 2008). x + 236 pages. $15.99. ISBN: 9781599551937

Review Of Toward Other Worlds: Perspectives On John Milton, C. S. Lewis, Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, And Others, William Gentrup

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William Gentrup: Review of: Michael R. Collings, Toward Other Worlds: Perspectives on John Milton, C. S. Lewis, Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, and Others (Rockville, MD, 2010). 309 pages. $16.99. ISBN: 9781434457929.; .; . .; Suzanne Bray: .; David Llewellyn Dodds: .;

Review Of Owen Barfield On C. S. Lewis, Sørina Higgins

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Review of: Owen Barfield; edited by G. B. Tennyson and Jane Hipolito. Owen Barfield on C. S. Lewis (Oxford, 2011). xxi +157 pages. $19.99. ISBN: 9780955958298

Review Of Writing God And The Self: Samuel Beckett And C. S. Lewis, Monika Hilder

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Review of: Sharon Jebb, Writing God and the Self: Samuel Beckett and C. S. Lewis (Eugene, 2011). 292 pages. $32.00. ISBN: 9781608997381

Review Of C. S. Lewis: A Map Of His Worlds, Charles A. Huttar

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Review of: Margaret Patterson Hannay, C. S. Lewis: A Map of His Worlds (Eugene, 2009). xiv (plus one inserted leaf, unpaginated) + 299 pages. $35.00. ISBN: 9781606084106

Review Of Companionship In Grief: Love And Loss In The Memoirs Of C. S. Lewis, John Bayley, Donald Hall, Joan Didion, And Calvin Trillin, Don W. King

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Don W. King: Review of: Jeffrey Berman, Companionship in Grief: Love and Loss in the Memoirs of C. S. Lewis, John Bayley, Donald Hall, Joan Didion, and Calvin Trillin

"There Is No Emperor": Merlin And The Ideal State In That Hideous Strength, L. S.B. Maccoull

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C. S. Lewis’ Merlin has been brought forward from the sixth century. In the world he knew, though there was no longer a Roman Emperor in the West, there certainly was an Emperor reigning in Constantinople who could be called upon for aid. A closer look at Lewis’ depiction of Byzantium reveals what role the positive qualities he attributed to the city played in the development of his own views regarding the nature of the realm (or world) we should strive to realize here on earth.

The Stylistic Achievement Of Mere Christianity, Gary L. Tandy

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This essay will not attempt to explain the cultural, sociological, and theological reasons for the ongoing relevance of Lewis’s Mere Christianity. It will, however, look closely at several aspects of the work in order to assess its rhetorical and literary achievement. It will also suggest that, while Lewis’ understanding of Christian doctrine and his mastery of logical argument are important (and have received the bulk of critical attention), the success of Mere Christianity has more to do with the style through which the author communicated its content. Specifically, Lewis’ rhetorical or apologetic theory led him to focus on the …

"A Dreadful Thing": C.S. Lewis And The Experinces Of War, Timothy J. Demy

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From a Christian perspective, war entails the death and killing of people who are all created in the image of God and therefore have inherent dignity and incalculable worth. And yet, even after experiencing war at firsthand, C. S. Lewis believed that war is sometimes justifiable and necessary.

Like others of his generation, Lewis was deeply affected by the experience of war. He lived through the First and Second World Wars, serving as an officer on the Western Front between November 1917 and April 1918. His brother Warren (“Warnie”) was a career officer serving in the British army in both …

"The Curdie Books, Please": C.S. Lewis' Co-Creative Reading In That Hideous Stength, Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson

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The intent of this article is to initiate examination into the extent to which That Hideous Strength (1945), the last of the Ransom trilogy, is shaped by the “Curdie books”—particularly the second, The Princess and Curdie (1882).6 In doing so, some of MacDonald’s influence on Lewis’ understanding of “myth,” of “semantic unities,” and even of literary criticism will be set forth.

A Friend's Death: C.S. Lewis' Disagreement With St. Augustine, Jason Lepojärvi

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Lewis did nothing to conceal his admiration of—and theological pedigree to—Augustine: as he wrote, Augustine “is a great saint and a great thinker to whom my old glad debts are incalculable.”3 This is why the only time he explicitly disagrees with Augustine on an important point concerning love, he does so “with trembling.”4 Lewis’ sentiments in having to disagree with Augustine may be comparable to Stanley Hauerwas disagreeing with Lewis. It is difficult, Hauerwas wrote, “to criticize a writer who has done so much good as C. S. Lewis.”5 The purpose of the present article is to evaluate the gentlemanly …

Jack Lewis And His American Cousin, Nat Hawthorne: A Study Of Instructive Affinities, D. G. Kehl

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When he was a student at Oxford University, C. S. Lewis wrote to a friend expressing his great admiration of and enthusiasm for the novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne, particularly The House of the Seven Gables and Transformation (British title of The Marble Faun). This study examines the parallels between these two kindred spirits and their works, focusing on their similar worldviews, their personal backgrounds and lifestyles, and the "Ultimates" they both pondered. It discusses common themes in their works, such as myth, scientism, and "the great power of blackness." Their respective attitudes toward these issues and others, such as faith, …

Review Of C. S. Lewis Pre-Evangelism For A Post-Christian World: Why Narnia Might Be More Real Than We Think, Josiah Peterson

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Josiah Peterson: Review of Brian Williams, C. S. Lewis Pre-Evangelism for a Post-Christian World: Why Narnia Might be More Real Than We Think (Cambridge, Ohio: Christian Publishing House, 2021). 308 pages. $15.95. ISBN 9781949586152.

Review Of Splendour In The Dark: C. S. Lewis’S Dymer In His Life And Work, Crystal Hurd

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Crystal Hurd: Review of Jerry Root, Splendour in the Dark: C. S. Lewis’s Dymer in His Life and Work (Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP Academic, 2020). 240 pages, including Contributors and Indices. $20.00. ISBN 9780830853755.

Review Of Holly Ordway, Tolkien’S Modern Reading: Middle-Earth Beyond The Middle Ages, Lauren Spohn

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Lauren Spohn: Review of Holly Ordway, Tolkien’s Modern Reading: Middle-earth beyond the Middle Ages (Park Ridge, Illinois: Word on Fire Academic, 2021). 382 pages, including pictures and Appendix. $28.47. ISBN 9781943243723.

Review Of The Reading Life: The Joy Of Seeing New Worlds Through Others’ Eyes, Corey Latta

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Corey Latta: Review of C. S. Lewis, The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others’ Eyes, ed. by David Downing and Michael Maudlin (Harper Collins: New York, NY: 2019). 171 pages. $14.79. ISBN 9780062849977.

Review Of From Spare Oom To War Drobe: Travels In Narnia With My Nine-Year-Old Self, Sarah R. A. Waters

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Sarah Waters: Review of Katherine Langrish, From Spare Oom to War Drobe: Travels in Narnia with my Nine-Year-Old Self (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 2021). 286 pages. $26.00. ISBN 9781913657079.