Research Catalog

Title

The Inklings and culture : a harvest of scholarship from the Inklings Institute of Canada / edited by Monika B. Hilder, Sara L. Pearson, and Laura N. Van Dyke.

Publication

• Newscastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.
• ©2020

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Additional Authors

• Hilder, Monika B., 1957-
• Pearson, Sara L., 1970-
• Van Dyke, Laura N.
• Inklings Institute of Canada, sponsoring body.

Description

xiii, 397 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"How did five twentieth-century British authors, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, and Dorothy L. Sayers, along with their mentors George MacDonald and G. K. Chesterton, come to contribute more to the intellect and imagination of millions than many of their literary contemporaries put together? How do their achievements continue to inform and potentially transform us in the twenty-first century? In this first collection of its kind, addressing the entire famous group of seven authors, the twenty-seven chapters in The Inklings and Culture explore the legacy of their diverse literary art--inspired by the Christian faith--art that continues to speak hope into a hurting and deeply divided world" --

Subject

• Lewis, C. S. 1898-1963 > Criticism and interpretation
• Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973 > Criticism and interpretation
• Sayers, Dorothy L. 1893-1957 > Criticism and interpretation
• Barfield, Owen, 1898-1997 > Criticism and interpretation
• Williams, Charles, 1886-1945 > Criticism and interpretation
• MacDonald, George, 1824-1905 > Criticism and interpretation
• Chesterton, G. K. 1874-1936 > Criticism and interpretation
• Barfield, Owen, 1898-1997
• Chesterton, G. K. 1874-1936
• Lewis, C. S. 1898-1963
• MacDonald, George, 1824-1905
• Sayers, Dorothy L. 1893-1957
• Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973
• Williams, Charles, 1886-1945
• Inklings (Group of writers)
• Inklings (Group of writers) > Influence
• Christianity and literature
• English literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Fantasy literature, English > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Monika B. Hilder -- Chronology / Laura N. Van Dyke -- Literary influences. George MacDonald and mythopoesis : "one of the greatest arts" / Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson -- Descent and reascent : journeys to the underworld in C. S. Lewis / David C. Downing -- C. S. Lewis and Coleridge, revisited : The Abolition of Man / Murray J. Evans -- Charlotte Brontë in Narnia : intertextuality and gender / Sara L. Pearson -- What Anna Sewell gave to C. S. Lewis / Mervyn Nicholson -- C. S. Lewis and Bede Griffiths : chief companions on the contemplative journey / Ron Dart -- Christ and culture : C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Reinhold Niebuhr / Crystal Downing -- The Christian imagination. An experiment in charity : C. S. Lewis on love in the literary arts / Michael Ward -- The perilous lot of the Christian artist / Stephen M. Dunning -- A call to arts : George MacDonald on creativity as a spiritual discipline / Joy Steem -- G. K. Chesterton and the artistic endeavour / Matthew Steem -- Language and the "grand art" : the poetic vision of Charles Williams / Laura N. Van Dyke -- "Meeting somewhere in truth" : allegory, story, and the significance of the tale of Beren and Luthien / Greg Maillet -- Dorothy L. Sayers's eschatological imagination / Hannah Hempstead -- I am not I : confessional self-accounting in Till We Have Faces / Dominic Manganiello -- Artistic responses. Of dying gods and lamp-posts : repositioning C. S. Lewis's Narniad for the twenty-first century / William V. Thompson -- Heroes are not to be found : the subversion of Tolkien's heroic vision in the film adaptation of The Hobbit / Aaron Frede -- Digital Inklings : can the Christian vision of Tolkien and Lewis fit into a video game? / Kevin Schut -- Contemporary and theological issues. C. S. Lewis : interpreting history as interpreter / Richard Angelo Bergen -- Daemonic dread, libido dominandi, and ordinate love : stances to nature in Till We Have Faces : A Myth Retold / Katharine Bubel -- Welcoming the stranger : on refugees, walls, and the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien / Matthew T. Dickerson -- Hope remains while the company is true : the community heroic in the Fellowship of the Ring / Ariel Little -- Dorothy L. Sayers : war, women, and work / Jan Lermitte -- Owen Barfield's Biblical critique of idolatry / Grant Havers -- "Looking along" and "looking at" as a key to understanding C. S. Lewis's evangelism / John P. Bowen -- The limits of apologetics : Lewis on creatureliness in A Preface to Paradise Lost / Norm Klassen -- Identity theft : reading the signs of the times in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia / Monika B. Hilder.

ISBN

• 1527560147
• 9781527560147

OCLC

• on1201657238
• SCSB-9785910

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library