Owen Barfield's This Ever Diverse Pair (1950) is a short novel about a poet-solicitor who has torn his consciousness in two. Burden, the practical half, begrudgingly attends to paperwork; Burgeon, the creative half, hides away and writes poetry. From Walter de la Mare to the present, readers of the text have tended to identify Barfield exclusively with Burgeon. And yet if we interrogate Burgeon's digressions on the nature of art, we find that this allegedly Barfieldian half is more often used as a mouthpiece for theories manifestly antithetical to Barfield's own. This article explores an alternative reading in which Burgeon and Burden are the respective embodiments of Coleridge's faculties of imagination and fancy. Barfield's aim in writing the book is, accordingly, not to purge the Burden in us; rather, it is to offer a narrative apology for Coleridge's model, to demonstrate the ‘polar’ relationship which underlies all acts of the imagination.
欧文·巴菲尔德(Owen Barfield)的《永远不同的一对》(1950)是一部短篇小说，讲述了一个诗人兼律师将自己的意识一分为二的故事。伯顿是务实的那一半，不情愿地处理文书工作;布尔金是富有创造力的那一半，他躲起来写诗。从Walter de la Mare到现在，文本的读者倾向于将Barfield与Burgeon单独识别。然而，如果我们质问伯金关于艺术本质的离题，我们会发现，这所谓的巴菲尔德式的一半更经常被用作与巴菲尔德自己的理论明显相反的理论的喉舌。这篇文章探讨了另一种解读，在这种解读中，伯格恩和伯顿分别是柯勒律治想象力和想象力的体现。因此，巴菲尔德写这本书的目的并不是为了清除我们内心的负担;相反，它是为柯勒律治的模式提供一种叙事上的道歉，以展示所有想象行为背后的“两极”关系。
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{"title":"Verlyn Flieger, There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale: More Essays on Tolkien","authors":"S. Cook","doi":"10.3366/ink.2022.0141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2022.0141","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":"41724478","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":"‘Hail Satan Tonight!’: The Weird Hope of Spirits in BondageC.S. Lewis, Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics","authors":"E. Hadaway","doi":"10.3366/ink.2022.0145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2022.0145","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":"45038208","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":"Monika B. Hilder, Sara L. Pearson, and Laura N. Van Dyke (eds), The Inklings and Culture: A Harvest of Scholarship from the Inklings Institute of Canada","authors":"Sørina Higgins","doi":"10.3366/ink.2022.0142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2022.0142","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":"47208871","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}
In this brief memoir, the author recounts elements of his yearlong experience of doctoral supervision under C.S. Lewis at the University of Cambridge in the late 1950s.
{"title":"C.S. Lewis as a Research Supervisor","authors":"A. Spearing","doi":"10.3366/ink.2022.0138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2022.0138","url":null,"abstract":"In this brief memoir, the author recounts elements of his yearlong experience of doctoral supervision under C.S. Lewis at the University of Cambridge in the late 1950s.","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":"49337896","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}
Questions about exactly what role Lewis’s long-standing interest in mediaeval planetary symbolism may have played in framing the Chronicles of Narnia remain unsettled, but continue to be discussed, following Michael Ward’s influential 2008 book, Planet Narnia. This article examines The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, a book that Ward argues is implicitly governed by a Christianised understanding of Jupiter. The paper explores the way in which eating and drinking enhance the Jovial ethos of the novel. Meals contribute to the festal scenes of the book by enhancing the celebrations marked by teas, banquets, and even ordinary dinner conversation. The misuse of food suggests a misunderstanding about both the identity of Narnia’s true ruler and the way in which a monarch should govern. Finally, food and drink restore characters to health, while gustatory terms mark the passage of winter into spring. Collectively, these observations about food suggest that Jupiter’s influence suffuses even easily overlooked elements of the novel’s atmosphere, while also illustrating the explanatory power of Ward’s thesis that planetary symbolism strongly influences the shaping of the Narniad.
{"title":"Enchanted Eating and Bacchic Beverages: A Jovial Note on Meals in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe","authors":"Jieun Lee, Jonathon Lookadoo","doi":"10.3366/ink.2022.0136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2022.0136","url":null,"abstract":"Questions about exactly what role Lewis’s long-standing interest in mediaeval planetary symbolism may have played in framing the Chronicles of Narnia remain unsettled, but continue to be discussed, following Michael Ward’s influential 2008 book, Planet Narnia. This article examines The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, a book that Ward argues is implicitly governed by a Christianised understanding of Jupiter. The paper explores the way in which eating and drinking enhance the Jovial ethos of the novel. Meals contribute to the festal scenes of the book by enhancing the celebrations marked by teas, banquets, and even ordinary dinner conversation. The misuse of food suggests a misunderstanding about both the identity of Narnia’s true ruler and the way in which a monarch should govern. Finally, food and drink restore characters to health, while gustatory terms mark the passage of winter into spring. Collectively, these observations about food suggest that Jupiter’s influence suffuses even easily overlooked elements of the novel’s atmosphere, while also illustrating the explanatory power of Ward’s thesis that planetary symbolism strongly influences the shaping of the Narniad.","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":"43867641","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 examines a disagreement which briefly came to light decades ago, half-posthumously, between two twentieth-century Christian scholars, C.S. Lewis (1898–1963) and Reijer Hooykaas (1906–1994), the first Dutch professor in the history of science, who later succeeded to the chair of Eduard Dijksterhuis in Utrecht. Hooykaas and Lewis diverge in their views of the role traditionally ascribed to the work of Francis Bacon (1561–1626) as a major inspiration for the seventeenth-century scientific revolution. Put briefly, while Bacon is a hero for Hooykaas, he is an antihero for Lewis. Sorting out the extent to which either scholar was right not only results in a fairly clear answer but entails, as a bonus, a fine example of what the history of science as an academic discipline is indeed good for.
{"title":"Wonderful Works of Nature: C.S. Lewis and Reijer Hooykaas on Francis Bacon and the Scientific Revolution","authors":"A. Smilde","doi":"10.3366/ink.2021.0114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2021.0114","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines a disagreement which briefly came to light decades ago, half-posthumously, between two twentieth-century Christian scholars, C.S. Lewis (1898–1963) and Reijer Hooykaas (1906–1994), the first Dutch professor in the history of science, who later succeeded to the chair of Eduard Dijksterhuis in Utrecht. Hooykaas and Lewis diverge in their views of the role traditionally ascribed to the work of Francis Bacon (1561–1626) as a major inspiration for the seventeenth-century scientific revolution. Put briefly, while Bacon is a hero for Hooykaas, he is an antihero for Lewis. Sorting out the extent to which either scholar was right not only results in a fairly clear answer but entails, as a bonus, a fine example of what the history of science as an academic discipline is indeed good for.","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46433788","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":"Philip Irving Mitchell, The Shared Witness of C.S. Lewis and Austin Farrer: Friendship, Influence, and an Anglican Worldview","authors":"D. Hedley","doi":"10.3366/ink.2021.0123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2021.0123","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45551424","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}
Six hitherto unpublished letters and a poetic postcard represent C.S. Lewis’s side of a correspondence in the early 1940s with the artist and illustrator Thomas Derrick. The letters discuss the possibility, which was never realised, of an illustrated edition of The Screwtape Letters and intriguingly indicate that Lewis and the artist discussed other collaborative possibilities, most notably a project on the virtues and the vices, also sadly unrealised. Lewis sent Derrick an early sketch of Screwtape.
{"title":"C.S. Lewis, Thomas Derrick, and Screwtape","authors":"D. Derrick, B. Murdoch","doi":"10.3366/ink.2021.0115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2021.0115","url":null,"abstract":"Six hitherto unpublished letters and a poetic postcard represent C.S. Lewis’s side of a correspondence in the early 1940s with the artist and illustrator Thomas Derrick. The letters discuss the possibility, which was never realised, of an illustrated edition of The Screwtape Letters and intriguingly indicate that Lewis and the artist discussed other collaborative possibilities, most notably a project on the virtues and the vices, also sadly unrealised. Lewis sent Derrick an early sketch of Screwtape.","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46123569","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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