| Reflecting the Eternal: Dante's Divine Comedy in the Novels of C.S. Lewis Contributor(s): Daigle-Williamson, Marsha (Author) |
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ISBN: 1619706652 ISBN-13: 9781619706651 Publisher: Hendrickson Academic OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2015 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 823.912 |
| LCCN: 2015027000 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (1.00 lbs) 275 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The characters, plots, and potent language of C. S. Lewis s novels reveal everywhere the modern writer s admiration for Dante s "Divine Comedy. " Throughout his career Lewis drew on the structure, themes, and narrative details of Dante s medieval epic to present his characters as spiritual pilgrims growing toward God. Dante s portrayal of sin and sanctification, of human frailty and divine revelation, are evident in all of Lewis s best work. Readers will see how a modern author can make astonishingly creative use of a predecessor s material in this case, the way Lewis imitated and adapted medieval ideas about spiritual life for the benefit of his modern audience. Nine chapters cover all of Lewis s novels, from" Pilgrim s Regress" and his science-fiction to "The Chronicles of Narnia "and "Till We Have Faces." Readers will gain new insight into the sources of Lewis s literary imagination that represented theological and spiritual principles in his clever, compelling, humorous, and thoroughly human stories. |