{"title":"Thomas Kullmann and Dirk Siepmann, Tolkien as a Literary Artist: Exploring Rhetoric, Language and Style in ‘The Lord of the Rings’","authors":"A. Turner","doi":"10.3366/ink.2022.0144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2022.0144","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48776823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article traces C.S. Lewis’s principles of education, articulated consistently through his fiction, academic writing, and theological works. It argues that, working within the tradition of his Oxford ‘Greats’ education, and through influences like Newman and Tolkien, Lewis envisions education primarily as a form of ‘Gift-love’ between persons. For Lewis, then, the qualities of the teacher and the developing habits of the student are of paramount importance at the earlier stages of education. Lewis, however, distinguishes learning from education to mark the later stages of the student’s progress, a transition from dependence on the teacher to independent exploration of a particular field in which, ideally, the student becomes the teacher’s equal and friend. For Lewis, education aims not primarily at data, research, or self-expression; rather, the end of education is intellectual freedom.
{"title":"Education, Gift, and Freedom: C.S. Lewis’s Idea of a University","authors":"Melinda E. Nielsen, Philipp Nielsen","doi":"10.3366/ink.2022.0134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2022.0134","url":null,"abstract":"This article traces C.S. Lewis’s principles of education, articulated consistently through his fiction, academic writing, and theological works. It argues that, working within the tradition of his Oxford ‘Greats’ education, and through influences like Newman and Tolkien, Lewis envisions education primarily as a form of ‘Gift-love’ between persons. For Lewis, then, the qualities of the teacher and the developing habits of the student are of paramount importance at the earlier stages of education. Lewis, however, distinguishes learning from education to mark the later stages of the student’s progress, a transition from dependence on the teacher to independent exploration of a particular field in which, ideally, the student becomes the teacher’s equal and friend. For Lewis, education aims not primarily at data, research, or self-expression; rather, the end of education is intellectual freedom.","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47348290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article situates G.K. Chesterton’s work in relation to the theological epistemology of John Henry Newman. It studies the roles of reason, imagination, mystery, emotional knowledge, communal knowledge, and experience in Chesterton’s epistemology, and the relationship between logical argument and narrative in his writing. The article attempts to demonstrate that Chesterton’s work contains an implicit theological epistemology which in numerous respects parallels Newman’s and argues that Chesterton developed Newman’s epistemology in certain areas in the context of his work as an apologist. The article concludes with reflections on what Newman’s influence on Chesterton may imply with regard to Chesterton’s role as a hidden channel for Newman’s influence on later writers.
{"title":"Chesterton’s Epistemology: A Study in the Development of Newman’s Doctrines","authors":"David Pickering","doi":"10.3366/ink.2022.0137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2022.0137","url":null,"abstract":"This article situates G.K. Chesterton’s work in relation to the theological epistemology of John Henry Newman. It studies the roles of reason, imagination, mystery, emotional knowledge, communal knowledge, and experience in Chesterton’s epistemology, and the relationship between logical argument and narrative in his writing. The article attempts to demonstrate that Chesterton’s work contains an implicit theological epistemology which in numerous respects parallels Newman’s and argues that Chesterton developed Newman’s epistemology in certain areas in the context of his work as an apologist. The article concludes with reflections on what Newman’s influence on Chesterton may imply with regard to Chesterton’s role as a hidden channel for Newman’s influence on later writers.","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43883988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Richard Ingrams, The Sins of G.K. Chesterton","authors":"David Pickering","doi":"10.3366/ink.2022.0143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2022.0143","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45177824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Following Chesterton’s strange omission of his first book in his Autobiography, scholarship has remained virtually silent on Greybeards at Play (1900). When critics have commented, they have generally dismissed the book as silly and disconnected from Chesterton’s subsequent works. This article seeks to invert this perspective, arguing that, far from peripheral or irrelevant, Greybeards is in fact central and seminal in Chesterton’s oeuvre. This is accomplished by exploring the multivalent trope of the greybeard at play and its literary and theological ramifications: how it symbolically unites innocence and experience into a higher childlike state. These greybeards are traced through close readings of the cover art, title, and two framing poems and linked to antecedents in the Bible, Shakespeare, Blake, Dickens, and George MacDonald. At the same time, frequent references to Chesterton’s more popular works gesture to how this symbolic perspective was not an aberration of this one text but emblematic of Chesterton’s mode more generally. The search for greybeards at play thus provides a vital re-evaluation of Chesterton’s first book that suggests it should not only be redeemed from the critical dust-heap but even elevated to a place of primacy in Chesterton’s corpus.
{"title":"In Search of Greybeards at Play; or, Why Did Chesterton Conceal His Jesting Sages?","authors":"Daniel Gabelman","doi":"10.3366/ink.2022.0133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2022.0133","url":null,"abstract":"Following Chesterton’s strange omission of his first book in his Autobiography, scholarship has remained virtually silent on Greybeards at Play (1900). When critics have commented, they have generally dismissed the book as silly and disconnected from Chesterton’s subsequent works. This article seeks to invert this perspective, arguing that, far from peripheral or irrelevant, Greybeards is in fact central and seminal in Chesterton’s oeuvre. This is accomplished by exploring the multivalent trope of the greybeard at play and its literary and theological ramifications: how it symbolically unites innocence and experience into a higher childlike state. These greybeards are traced through close readings of the cover art, title, and two framing poems and linked to antecedents in the Bible, Shakespeare, Blake, Dickens, and George MacDonald. At the same time, frequent references to Chesterton’s more popular works gesture to how this symbolic perspective was not an aberration of this one text but emblematic of Chesterton’s mode more generally. The search for greybeards at play thus provides a vital re-evaluation of Chesterton’s first book that suggests it should not only be redeemed from the critical dust-heap but even elevated to a place of primacy in Chesterton’s corpus.","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45797667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"John D. Rateliff (ed.), A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger","authors":"H. Williams","doi":"10.3366/ink.2022.0148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2022.0148","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42808974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Douglas Wilson, The Light from Behind the Sun: A Reformed and Evangelical Appreciation of C.S. Lewis","authors":"Louis A. Markos","doi":"10.3366/ink.2022.0147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2022.0147","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47038273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C.S. Lewis's two volumes of literary theory are compared and contrasted with the particular works in mainstream twentieth century literary theory that they most closely resemble. The Personal Heresy is akin to, but ultimately divergent from, the New Critical papers ‘The Intentional Fallacy’ and ‘The Affective Fallacy’. Likewise An Experiment in Criticism is akin to reader-response theories of the phenomenological variety, especially those of Georges Poulet, Wolfgang Iser, and Roman Ingarden, but unlike most other kinds. Lewis's position as a theorist is too reader-focused for New Criticism but also more formalistic than most reader-response theories. Nevertheless, these are the two movements with which his work has most in common, unlike other major twentieth-century movements, such as gender studies, Marxist theory, new historicism, queer theory, postmodernism, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and structuralism.
{"title":"Categorising C.S. Lewis's Literary Theory","authors":"Justin W. Keena","doi":"10.3366/ink.2022.0132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2022.0132","url":null,"abstract":"C.S. Lewis's two volumes of literary theory are compared and contrasted with the particular works in mainstream twentieth century literary theory that they most closely resemble. The Personal Heresy is akin to, but ultimately divergent from, the New Critical papers ‘The Intentional Fallacy’ and ‘The Affective Fallacy’. Likewise An Experiment in Criticism is akin to reader-response theories of the phenomenological variety, especially those of Georges Poulet, Wolfgang Iser, and Roman Ingarden, but unlike most other kinds. Lewis's position as a theorist is too reader-focused for New Criticism but also more formalistic than most reader-response theories. Nevertheless, these are the two movements with which his work has most in common, unlike other major twentieth-century movements, such as gender studies, Marxist theory, new historicism, queer theory, postmodernism, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and structuralism.","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46240961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Elvish Re-incarnation, Valinorian Time, and Aragorn’s BeardJ.R.R. Tolkien, The Nature of Middle-earth: Late Writings on the Lands, Inhabitants, and Metaphysics of Middle-earth","authors":"Thomas Honegger","doi":"10.3366/ink.2022.0146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2022.0146","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46549449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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