Tag: Literary Critic
Jack's "Personal Heresy": The Politics of Poetics
March 20th, 2008
The Personal Heresy is another important work in Lewis’s canon that few people outside of literary studies will have noticed, but one whose impact in accounting for Lewis’s journey of faith and the role of “objective value” in his thinking cannot be underestimated. “The Personal Heresy” refers both to (1) a menacing concept C. S. [...]
C. S. Lewis on Language
March 8th, 2008
How did C. S. Lewis see language? We possess the gift of speech from a Creator-God one of whose own defining attributes is that He himself speaks, and that his speech is itself an expression of creative power. Indeed, just as the Biblical God speaks the universe into being, Aslan, the Creator King in Lewis’s [...]
