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C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, And Esemplastic Friendship, Paul E. Michelson

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

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Chesterton In Heaven, Jennifer Woodruff Tait

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

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Can Love Be Blind?, Bethany Russell

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

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The Inklings, In Memoriam: A Cycle Of Poems, Donald T. Williams

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

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An Answer For Orual: C. S. Lewis As Defender Of The Faith, Donald T. Williams

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

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Joy And Poetic Imagination: An Introduction To C. S. Lewis’S “Incessant Disputation” With Owen Barfield, Stephen Thorson

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

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Afterword: About The Center For The Study Of C. S. Lewis And Friends At Taylor University, Lisa Ritche

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

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“Don’T Believe In Anything That Can’T Be Told In Colored Pictures”: Notes On A Dramatic Reading Of Poems By Lewis, Tolkien, Chesterton, And Williams, Jennifer Woodruff Tait

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

Author’s Note: This read was an excerpt of a larger, hour-long presentation that I gave at the New York C. S. Lewis Society in June 2008 and at the Taylor bi-monthly C. S. Lewis meetings in April 2010. Poems read the 2016 Colloquium are in bold.

Take This Job And Love It: Dorothy Sayers On Work, Kimberly Moore-Jumonville

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

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Canto Xxxiii, M. J. Paulus

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

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The Temptation Of Brother Thomas: A Stop-Motion Animated Short Film, J. Stephan Leeper

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

The Temptation of Br. Thomas is a short animated film that celebrates beauty and examines our preconceptions of what we consider sacred. Thomas Acquinas serves both as namesake to the central character and an inspiration to the ideas put forth in the film. The Temptation of Brother Thomas draws from the rich legacy of art within the Western Church while it challenges the modern assumptions that true art needs to be cut loose from orthodox faith in order to flourish. True to Aquinas’ writings, it also challenges contemporary religious notions that art and beauty are somehow superfluous to a life …

Dog City After Dark After Reading The Great Divorce, Rick Hill

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

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Owen Barfield And C. S. Lewis: A Critical Friendship, Colin Duriez

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

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The Words In The World, Luke A. Wildman

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

Author’s Note: This story is an excerpt from a longer project I’m working on, titled Song of the Searching. It’s the story of Alp searching across a magical world for his sister, told from the perspectives of those he meets along his journey.

“But What Is The Moral?”: A Dramatized Bibliographic Study Of The Relationship Of George Macdonald’S “The Light Princess” To Adela Cathcart, Joe Ricke, Abby Palmisano, Blair Hedges, Cara Strickland

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

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The Future Of Inklings Studies: Keynote Panel Discussion (4 June 2016), Joe Ricke, Diana Glyer, Sørina Higgins, Colin Duriez

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

Transcription of panel discussion with Diana Gyler, Sørina Higgins, Colin Duriez, and Joe Ricke. (Transcribed and edited by Joe Ricke.)

2016 Printed Program

Colloquium Schedules

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King Maker In The Mind Of The Maker, Mark Eckel

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

"The mind of the maker and the Mind of the Maker are formed on the same pattern, and all their works are made in their own image." Dorothy Sayers goes to great lengths to expose a Christian view of creativity. Seen from a First Testament perspective, Sayer's ideas conform closely to human kingship originally intended by God; the vestigates of the robes remain.

In this paper I will seek to intersect Sayer's views of The Creator, the creature, creation, and creativity with the biblical-cultural connections in Genesis 1. What does it mean to be made in God's image in the …

A Day In The Life Of A Hero: The Three Unities In C.S. Lewis's Neo-Classical Romance, Joe R. Christopher

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

C.S. Lewis's "The Nameless Isle" is, if one ignores the first fifty-seven lines as an introduction, curiously shaped to meet the requirements of the Three Unities as the Renaissance and as Neo-classicism understood Aristotle's Poetics. Or at least two of them. The Unity of Place is obvious: all the action is set on the same isle. The Unity of Plot may be debatable since the dwarf has more to do with the resolution of the conflict than the hero does, but at least there is only one basic conflict. And, most impressive of the Three, all the action occurs on …

C.S. Lewis, Thomas Wolfe, And The Transatlantic Expression Of Sehnsucht, Jedidah Evans

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

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Once A Queen Of Glome, Always A Queen Of Narnia: Orual And Susan's Denial Of The Divine And Redemption Through Grace, Kat Coffin

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

Susan Pevensie is one of the most misunderstood characters in C.S. Lewis' classic series, The Chronicles of Narnia. Writers such as Neil Gaiman, J.K. Rowling, and Philip Pullman have declared the character's face as a reflection of Lewis' sexism and misogyny, further claiming that Susan's exclusion from the final book of the series was due to her penchant for lipstick and nylons. Feminist criticism has found Susan's treatment pointedly gendered, displaying Lewis' supposedly negative attitude towards traditional forms of femininity.

While "the problem of Susan" has garnered critical response, little thought has been given to Susan in relation to Orual, …

The Wars We Sing Of: Modern And Medieval Warfare In Tolkien's Middle-Earth, Alethea Gaarden

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

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The Artistry Of C.S. Lewis: An Examination Of The Illustrations For Boxen And The Chronicles Of Narnia, Kathryne Hall

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

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The Wizard In The Well: The Transmogrification Of The Mythical Merlin In C.S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, Mark R. Hall

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

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Maleeldil And Mutual Society: A Modern Woman's Defense Of Jane Studdock, Crystal Hurd

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

Over the past few decades, many scholars and casual readers have derided C.S. Lewis as a misogynist for the "expulsion" of Susan from Aslan's Country. However, closer examinations of Lewis's underlying philosophy and previous experiences with women lend us exceptional insight into his changing perspective as well as his portrayal of feminine characters. Written before his wildly popular The Chronicles of Narnia, Lewis's science fiction or Ransom trilogy provides a glimpse into his developing talents as a fiction writer but also provides crucial commentary on the gender issues plaguing the twentieth century. This paper will investigate, through his correspondence, …

George Macdonald And J.R.R. Tolkien On Faerie And Fairy Stories, Paul E. Michelson

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

The paper discusses the ideas of George MacDonald and J.R.R. Tolkien on Faërie and Fairy Stories, based on an analysis of MacDonald's essay "The Fantastic Imagination," Tolkien's "On Fairy-Stories," Tolkien's correspondence, and Tolkien's unpublished introduction to MacDonald's The Golden Key.

What Lewis Never Wrote: Quotes Misattributed To The Oxford Professor Don, William O'Flaherty

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

Most people today rely on the Internet for quotations and their sources. While C.S. Lewis is frequently very quotable, there are many quotes attributed to him that he never wrote. This talk will present those quotes frequently falsely attributed to Lewis, provide proof that he never said them, and (where possible) show who wrote them. Examples are: "You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body," and "You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream." Additionally the talk will explore what these non-Lewis quotes say about a culture looking for …

Lewis In The Dock (Part 2): A Brief Review Of The Secular Media's Coverage Of The 50th Anniversary Of C.S. Lewis's Death, Richard James

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

In 1999, I presented a paper here at this colloquium on the secular print media's response to the 1998 C.S. Lewis Centenary Celebration. In 2014, it seems only natural to do a similar paper on the secular media's coverage of the 50th anniversary of Lewis's death which also included the dedication in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey of a memorial stone in his honor. The number of articles again abound, even more than in 1998. This second paper will consider articles by syndicated literary, news and religious columnists from secular newspapers and periodicals; internet postings by public TV and secular …

Through The Lens Of The Four Loves: The Idea Of Love In The Screwtape Letters, Paulette Sauders

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

It is my contention that when C.S. Lewis wrote his non-fiction book The Four Loves and published it in 1960, he had not been thinking about love in all of its manifestations for just a short time before it was written. All of the fictional works he wrote over the years, beginning in at least 1938, reflect his definitions and descriptions of the various kinds of love and their perversions that he systematically desctibes so well in The Four Loves. He does this in his fiction through his various characters and their actions.

In Out of the Silent Planet …

Lisa Tetzner's Translation Of C.S. Lewis's The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, Betsy Susan Morgan

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

According to UNESCO's website, Index Translationum, C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe has been translated 127 times. The first person to translate the novel was Lisa Tetzner and it is this translation, which has run through the most editions. This paper proposes to look at that translation in terms of accuracy and to examine the changes that were made in terms of purpose. Were they caused by differences between the languages or were they motivated by other concerns? This paper will be an abridgment of a master's thesis written for the Children's Literature program at Hollins University.