Reprinted
with the kind permission of the author
In the absence of a full-fledged
bio-critical study of Lewis, Kathryn Lindskoog, C. S. Lewis: Mere Christian,
1988, and Margaret Hannay,
C. S. Lewis, 1981, are perhaps the two
best single volumes on the life and career of Lewis, both offering broad
overviews and provocative evaluations of each of his works. Roger L. Green
and Walter Hooper, C. S. Lewis: A Biography, 1974, though dated,
and somewhat misleading, remains the best biographical source, though William
Griffin, C. S. Lewis; A Dramatic Life, 1986, offers a unique diary-like,
strictly chronological look at Lewis's life, and James Como, ed., C.
S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table, 1979, provides capsule impressions
by Oxbridge colleagues and friends who knew Lewis best. Paul Holmer, C.
S. Lewis: The Shape of His Faith and Thought, 1976 and Corbin Scott
Carnell,
Bright Shadow of Reality: C. S. Lewis and the Feeling Intellect,
1974, offer insights into the intellectual influences on Lewis and how
they manifested themselves in both his theology and fiction. Bruce L. Edwards
A
Rhetoric of Reading: C. S. Lewis's Defense of Western Literacy, 1986,
offers an in-depth assessment of Lewis' literary criticism and interpretive
method, while his edited collection, The Taste of the Pineapple: Essays
on C. S. Lewis as Reader, Critic, and Imaginative Writer, 1988, boasts
14 essays by prominent Lewis scholars whose incisive analysis of Lewis's
fictional and critical principles explains how each informed the other.
Thomas Howard,
The Achievement of C. S. Lewis, 1980, concentrates
exclusively on Lewis's Narnian tales and the Space Trilogy, providing evocative
readings of both. Peter Schakel, Reason and Imagination in C. S. Lewis:
A Study of Till We Have Faces, 1984, presents a convincing, masterful
interpretation of Lewis's most difficult work. Kathryn Lindksoog's The
C. S. Lewis Hoax, 1988, is a provoking and disturbing inquiry into
the authenticity and integrity of some posthumously published stories commonly
attributed to Lewis. Other studies include Robert H. Smith, Patches
of Godlight: The Pattern of Thought of C. S. Lewis, 1981; Jocelyn Gibb,
Light
on C. S. Lewis, 1965; and Peter Schakel, Reading with the Heart:
the Way into Narnia, 1979.
©
Dr. Bruce L. Edwards
Professor
of English
Bowling
Green State University
Bowling
Green, OHIO 43403
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