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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Myers, Doris T. C.S. Lewis in context. Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c1994 (OCoLC)624623633 |
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| Named Person: | C S Lewis; C S Lewis; Clive S Lewis |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Doris T Myers |
| ISBN: | 0873384970 9780873384971 0873386175 9780873386173 |
| OCLC Number: | 29910874 |
| Description: | xvi, 248 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The context of metaphor. The meaning of meaning and Poetic diction ; Two kinds of metaphor in The pilgrim's regress -- The context of literary criticism and genre. Out of the silent planet ; Perelandra -- The context of language control. The control of language and The abolition of man ; That hideous strength -- The context of Christian humanism. Abolishing the controllers: The first three chronicles ; Language North and South: The middle chronicles ; Mutability: The last two chronicles -- The context of myth and history. Till we have faces. |
| Responsibility: | Doris T. Myers. |
Abstract:
Although C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) achieved a level of popularity as a fiction writer, literary scholars have tended to view him as a minor figure working in an insignificant genre - science fiction - or have pigeon-holed him as a Christian apologist and moralist. In C. S. Lewis in Context, Doris T. Myers places his work in the literary milieu of his times and the public context of language rather than in the private realm of personal habits or relationships. A central debate early in the twentieth century concerned the nature of language: was it primarily objective and empirical, as Charles K. Ogden and Ivor A. Richards argued in The Meaning of Meaning, or essentially metaphorical and impressionistic, the approach of Owen Barfield in Poetic Diction? Lewis espoused the latter theory and integrated it into the purpose and style of his fiction. Myers therefore argues that he was not "out of touch with his time," as some critics claim, but a twentieth-century literary figure engaged in the issues of his day. By approaching Lewis's fiction through the linguistic controversies of his day, Myers not only develops a new framework within which to evaluate his works, but also clarifies his literary contributions. This valuable study will appeal to literary and linguistic scholars as well as to general enthusiasts of Lewis's fiction.
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