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“Happily Ever After” For The Twenty-First Century? Sex, Love, And Human Identity In C. S. Lewis’ The Chronicles Of Narnia, Monika B. Hilder May 2023

“Happily Ever After” For The Twenty-First Century? Sex, Love, And Human Identity In C. S. Lewis’ The Chronicles Of Narnia, Monika B. Hilder

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

For better and for worse, classic fairy tales have come under severe criticism as paradigms of sexist patriarchy in recent decades. Likewise, C. S. Lewis has been viewed as sexist, even misogynistic. While many fairy tale and Lewis fans might be tempted to dismiss all of these criticisms as nonsense, gender is one of the predominant discourses of our time, our questions and the varied answers are significant, and in this essay I consider how Lewis’ development of the fairy tale genre in The Chronicles of Narnia offers timeless, possibly even surprising, Christian wisdom. How does Lewis portray sex, love, …

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Conflict, Forgiveness, And The Healing Of Harms In C. S. Lewis’ The Chronicles Of Narnia, Jeffrey A. Misener May 2023

Conflict, Forgiveness, And The Healing Of Harms In C. S. Lewis’ The Chronicles Of Narnia, Jeffrey A. Misener

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Excerpt: "In The Chronicles of Narnia, children are celebrated as models of heroic potential in the ways they realize, apologize for, and repent of sinful words and deeds. This is in keeping with C. S. Lewis’ desire that his young readers would recognize and practice these virtues as signs of the “childlike faith” Jesus expects of his disciples (Mark 10:15; Luke 18:17).92 Conversely, adults are generally shown to be owners of an obtuse conscience and a recalcitrant will.

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C. S. Lewis And The Occult Temptation, Thomas Garrett Isham May 2023

C. S. Lewis And The Occult Temptation, Thomas Garrett Isham

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Twice in his life C. S. Lewis encountered—and greatly admired—authors involved in occult theory and practice.1 The first such figure was William Butler Yeats, the second, more than two decades later, Charles Williams. Lewis reacted to their occult preoccupations in quite different ways, even while acknowledging his continuing fascination with the subject.

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Review Of C. S. Lewis’S Perelandra: Reshaping The Image Of The Cosmos, Sørina Higgins May 2023

Review Of C. S. Lewis’S Perelandra: Reshaping The Image Of The Cosmos, Sørina Higgins

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Review of Judith Wolfe and Brendan Wolfe, eds., C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra: Reshaping the Image of the Cosmos (Kent, OH, 2013). 160 pages. $40.00. ISBN 9781606351833.

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Review Of A Year With Aslan: Daily Reflections From The Chronicles Of Narnia, Bruce L. Edwards May 2023

Review Of A Year With Aslan: Daily Reflections From The Chronicles Of Narnia, Bruce L. Edwards

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Review of C. S. Lewis, A Year With Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia, ed. by Julia L. Roller (San Francisco, 2010). 480 pages. $22.99. ISBN 9780061985515.

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Review Of A Hobbit, A Wardrobe, And A Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien And C. S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, And Heroism In The Cataclysm Of 1914-18, James Prothero May 2023

Review Of A Hobbit, A Wardrobe, And A Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien And C. S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, And Heroism In The Cataclysm Of 1914-18, James Prothero

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Review of Joseph Loconte, A Hobbit, A Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18 (Nashville, 2015). 256 pages. $14.90. ISBN: 9780718021764.

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Review Of The Pilgrim’S Regress, Wade Annotated Edition, Arend Smilde May 2023

Review Of The Pilgrim’S Regress, Wade Annotated Edition, Arend Smilde

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Review of C. S. Lewis, The Pilgrim’s Regress, Wade Annotated Edition, ed. and introduced by David C. Downing; illustrated by Michael Hague (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2014). xxiv + 239 pages. $25.00. ISBN 9780802872081.

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Review Of The C. S. Lewis Collection (30 Volumes), William O'Flaherty May 2023

Review Of The C. S. Lewis Collection (30 Volumes), William O'Flaherty

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Review of C. S. Lewis, The C. S. Lewis Collection (30 Volumes), ed. by Paul F. Ford, Patricia S. Klein, and Julia L. Roller (San Francisco, 1994-2014). 11,325 pages. Logos Bible Software. $399.95.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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

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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.

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“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 …

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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. …

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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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 …

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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 …

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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.

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“It’S Alive!” The Birth And Afterlife Of The Gothic Genre, Tanner Linkous May 2023

“It’S Alive!” The Birth And Afterlife Of The Gothic Genre, Tanner Linkous

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores the development of the Gothic novel in England throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This thesis establishes the Gothic as a literary mode of middle-class terror by analyzing Gothic novels within the historical context of the Industrial and Democratic revolutions. This requires an in-depth understanding of politics throughout both centuries and this thesis engages with several sources such as Maggie Kilgour’s The Rise of the Gothic Novel which adds important context to my claims. Additionally, I use several contemporary sources such as Godwin’s Caleb Williams, the writings of Edmund Burke, and On the Pleasure Derived from Objects …

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War In Heaven: The Archdeacon's Embodiment Of Charles Williams' Coinherence, Germeen Tanas May 2023

War In Heaven: The Archdeacon's Embodiment Of Charles Williams' Coinherence, Germeen Tanas

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Charles Williams published War in Heaven in 1930, the first of his seven supernatural novels. In War in Heaven, Archdeacon Julian Davenant of Castra Parvulorum is the unlikely hero who embodies calm goodness. War in Heaven’s dramatic arc focuses on a struggle to control the legendary Holy Grail, the chalice that the characters believe Jesus used at the Last Supper, and brutal spiritual warfare. Amid a turning and twisting plot, Williams infuses the text with the theological concepts of coinherence, substitution, and exchange. In pivotal scenes, Williams imbues the Archdeacon’s words and actions with his theological framework. In …

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