Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
C. S. Lewis's classic analysis of the experience of reading.
An Experiment in Criticism
Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
C. S. Lewis's classic analysis of the experience of reading.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
C. S. Lewis's classic analysis of the experience of reading.
The Ferrante Letters
Author: Sarah Chihaya
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023155088X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels found an audience of passionate and engaged readers around the world. Inspired by Ferrante’s intense depiction of female friendship and women’s intellectual lives, four critics embarked upon a project that was both work and play: to create a series of epistolary readings of the Neapolitan Quartet that also develops new ways of reading and thinking together. In a series of intertwined, original, and daring readings of Ferrante’s work and her fictional world, Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, Katherine Hill, and Juno Jill Richards strike a tone at once critical and personal, achieving a way of talking about literature that falls between the seminar and the book club. Their letters make visible the slow, fractured, and creative accretion of ideas that underwrites all literary criticism and also illuminate the authors’ lives outside the academy. The Ferrante Letters offers an improvisational, collaborative, and cumulative model for reading and writing with others, proposing a new method the authors call collective criticism. A book for fans of Ferrante and for literary scholars seeking fresh modes of intellectual exchange, The Ferrante Letters offers incisive criticism, insouciant riffs, and the pleasure of giving oneself over to an extended conversation about fiction with friends.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023155088X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels found an audience of passionate and engaged readers around the world. Inspired by Ferrante’s intense depiction of female friendship and women’s intellectual lives, four critics embarked upon a project that was both work and play: to create a series of epistolary readings of the Neapolitan Quartet that also develops new ways of reading and thinking together. In a series of intertwined, original, and daring readings of Ferrante’s work and her fictional world, Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, Katherine Hill, and Juno Jill Richards strike a tone at once critical and personal, achieving a way of talking about literature that falls between the seminar and the book club. Their letters make visible the slow, fractured, and creative accretion of ideas that underwrites all literary criticism and also illuminate the authors’ lives outside the academy. The Ferrante Letters offers an improvisational, collaborative, and cumulative model for reading and writing with others, proposing a new method the authors call collective criticism. A book for fans of Ferrante and for literary scholars seeking fresh modes of intellectual exchange, The Ferrante Letters offers incisive criticism, insouciant riffs, and the pleasure of giving oneself over to an extended conversation about fiction with friends.
Image and Imagination
Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107639271
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
New collection of literary-critical essays and reviews of C. S. Lewis, including previously unpublished and long-unavailable works.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107639271
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
New collection of literary-critical essays and reviews of C. S. Lewis, including previously unpublished and long-unavailable works.
Studies in Words
Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107688655
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
C. S. Lewis explores the fascination with language by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107688655
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
C. S. Lewis explores the fascination with language by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations.
Selected Literary Essays
Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107685389
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
This volume includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis's most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed range from Chaucer to Kipling, from 'The Literary Impact of the Authorized Version' to 'Psycho-Analysis and Literary Criticism,' from Shakespeare and Bunyan to Sir Walter Scott and William Morris. Common to each essay, however, is the lively wit, the distinctive forthrightness and the discreet erudition which characterizes Lewis's best critical writing.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107685389
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
This volume includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis's most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed range from Chaucer to Kipling, from 'The Literary Impact of the Authorized Version' to 'Psycho-Analysis and Literary Criticism,' from Shakespeare and Bunyan to Sir Walter Scott and William Morris. Common to each essay, however, is the lively wit, the distinctive forthrightness and the discreet erudition which characterizes Lewis's best critical writing.
C.S. Lewis and a Problem of Evil
Author: Jerry Root
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
ISBN: 0227903005
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
C.S. Lewis was concerned about an aspect of the problem of evil he called subjectivism: the tendency of one's perspective to move towards self-referentialism and utilitarianism. In C.S. Lewis and a Problem of Evil, Jerry Root provides a holistic reading of Lewis by walking the reader through all of Lewis's published work as he argues Lewis's case against subjectivism. Furthermore, the book reveals that Lewis consistently employed fiction to make his case, as virtually all of his villains are portrayed assubjectivists. Lewis's warnings are prophetic; this book is not merely an exposition of Lewis, it is also a timely investigation into the problem of evil.
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
ISBN: 0227903005
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
C.S. Lewis was concerned about an aspect of the problem of evil he called subjectivism: the tendency of one's perspective to move towards self-referentialism and utilitarianism. In C.S. Lewis and a Problem of Evil, Jerry Root provides a holistic reading of Lewis by walking the reader through all of Lewis's published work as he argues Lewis's case against subjectivism. Furthermore, the book reveals that Lewis consistently employed fiction to make his case, as virtually all of his villains are portrayed assubjectivists. Lewis's warnings are prophetic; this book is not merely an exposition of Lewis, it is also a timely investigation into the problem of evil.
The Magician's Book
Author: Laura Miller
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316040266
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Enchanted by Narnia's fantastic world as a child, prominent critic Laura Miller returns to the series as an adult to uncover the source of these small books' mysterious power by looking at their creator, Clive Staples Lewis. What she discovers is not the familiar, idealized image of the author, but a more interesting and ambiguous truth: Lewis's tragic and troubled childhood, his unconventional love life, and his intense but ultimately doomed friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien. Finally reclaiming Narnia "for the rest of us," Miller casts the Chronicles as a profoundly literary creation, and the portal to a lifelong adventure in books, art, and the imagination.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316040266
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Enchanted by Narnia's fantastic world as a child, prominent critic Laura Miller returns to the series as an adult to uncover the source of these small books' mysterious power by looking at their creator, Clive Staples Lewis. What she discovers is not the familiar, idealized image of the author, but a more interesting and ambiguous truth: Lewis's tragic and troubled childhood, his unconventional love life, and his intense but ultimately doomed friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien. Finally reclaiming Narnia "for the rest of us," Miller casts the Chronicles as a profoundly literary creation, and the portal to a lifelong adventure in books, art, and the imagination.
An Experiment with Time
Author: John William Dunne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Time
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Time
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Spenser's Images of Life
Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107691133
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
This book was compiled by Alastair Fowler from notes left by C. S. Lewis at his death. It is Lewis's longest piece of literary criticism, as distinct from literary history. It approaches The Faerie Queene as a majestic pageant of the universe and nature, celebrating God as 'the glad creator', and argues that conventional views of epic and allegory must be modified if the poem is to be fully enjoyed and understood.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107691133
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
This book was compiled by Alastair Fowler from notes left by C. S. Lewis at his death. It is Lewis's longest piece of literary criticism, as distinct from literary history. It approaches The Faerie Queene as a majestic pageant of the universe and nature, celebrating God as 'the glad creator', and argues that conventional views of epic and allegory must be modified if the poem is to be fully enjoyed and understood.
The Neglected C. S. Lewis
Author: Mark Neal
Publisher: Paraclete Press
ISBN: 1640602976
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Readers who can quote word for word from C.S. Lewis’s theological classic, Mere Christianity, or his science fiction novel, Perelandra, have often never read his work as a professional literary historian. They may not even recognize some of the neglected works discussed, here. Mark Neal and Jerry Root have done students of Lewis a great service, tracing the signature ideas in Lewis’s works of literary criticism and showing their relevance to Lewis’s more familiar books. Their thorough research and lucid prose will be welcome to all who would like to understand Lewis more fully, but who feel daunted by books of such evident scholarly erudition. For example, when you read The Discarded Image on the ancients’ view of the heavens, you understand better why Ransom has such unpleasant sensations when first descending toward Malacandra in Out of the Silent Planet. And when you come across Lewis’s discussion in OHEL of a minor sixteenth-century poet who described the hellish River Styx as a “puddle glum,” you can’t help but chuckle at the name when you meet the famous Marshwiggle in The Silver Chair. These are just two examples of how reading the “Neglected Lewis” can help every reader understand Lewis more fully.
Publisher: Paraclete Press
ISBN: 1640602976
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Readers who can quote word for word from C.S. Lewis’s theological classic, Mere Christianity, or his science fiction novel, Perelandra, have often never read his work as a professional literary historian. They may not even recognize some of the neglected works discussed, here. Mark Neal and Jerry Root have done students of Lewis a great service, tracing the signature ideas in Lewis’s works of literary criticism and showing their relevance to Lewis’s more familiar books. Their thorough research and lucid prose will be welcome to all who would like to understand Lewis more fully, but who feel daunted by books of such evident scholarly erudition. For example, when you read The Discarded Image on the ancients’ view of the heavens, you understand better why Ransom has such unpleasant sensations when first descending toward Malacandra in Out of the Silent Planet. And when you come across Lewis’s discussion in OHEL of a minor sixteenth-century poet who described the hellish River Styx as a “puddle glum,” you can’t help but chuckle at the name when you meet the famous Marshwiggle in The Silver Chair. These are just two examples of how reading the “Neglected Lewis” can help every reader understand Lewis more fully.