The Inklings and culture : a harvest of scholarship from the Inklings Institute of Canada /

"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 literar...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Inklings Institute of Canada (sponsoring body.)
Other Authors:	Hilder, Monika B., 1957- (Editor), Pearson, Sara L., 1970- (Editor), Van Dyke, Laura N. (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Newscastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.
Subjects:	Lewis, C. S. > (Clive Staples), > 1898-1963 > Criticism and interpretation. Tolkien, J. R. R. > (John Ronald Reuel), > 1892-1973 > Criticism and interpretation. Sayers, Dorothy L. > (Dorothy Leigh), > 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. > (Gilbert Keith), > 1874-1936 > Criticism and interpretation. Barfield, Owen, > 1898-1997. Chesterton, G. K. > (Gilbert Keith), > 1874-1936. Lewis, C. S. > (Clive Staples), > 1898-1963. MacDonald, George, > 1824-1905. Sayers, Dorothy L. > (Dorothy Leigh), > 1893-1957. Tolkien, J. R. R. > (John Ronald Reuel), > 1892-1973. Williams, Charles, > 1886-1945. Inklings (Group of writers) Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of 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.