Add to ORKGAddresses the perennial question of J.R.R. Tolkien’s dislike for C.S. Lewis’s Narnia books, carefully analyzing numerous first- and second-hand accounts from biographies, interviews, and letters. A previously unpublished letter from Tolkien to Eileen Elgar adds a new and more nuanced element to our understanding of this issue
Review of Salwa Khoddam, Mythopoeic Narnia: Memory, Metaphor, and Metamorphoses in The Chronicles of...
This paper illustrates, primarily by reviewing reviews from The Hobbit to “The History of Middle-ear...
Considers the influence of some of Tolkien’s earliest childhood reading, the Andrew Lang fairy books...
Proposes an intriguing solution to the question of Tolkien and Lewis’s estrangement in 1949: that it...
Analyzes a number of explanations proposed by biographers and others for Tolkien’s antipathy to Lewi...
Analyzes a number of explanations proposed by biographers and others for Tolkien’s antipathy to Lewi...
Although J.R.R. Tolkien’s reputation in recent years has benefited immensely from Peter Jackson’s fi...
Review of Shauna Caughey, ed., Revisiting Narnia: Fantasy, Myth and Religion in C. S. Lewis’s Chron...
“Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about s...
Responds to a critique that his Planet Narnia thesis does not take into account Lewis’s letter to La...
A reading of the Narnian chronicles as fantasy, not Christian allegory, and notes “the tension betwe...
Shows how the medieval model which Lewis articulated in The Discarded Image influenced both the Spac...
A Book of Narnians: The Lion, the Witch, and the Others. C.S. Lewis. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterso...
Review of Rowan Williams, The Lion’s World: A Journey into the Heart of Narnia (Oxford, 2012). 168 p...
Discusses ways in which criticism can or should deal with fantasy, and examines several critics’ tak...
Review of Salwa Khoddam, Mythopoeic Narnia: Memory, Metaphor, and Metamorphoses in The Chronicles of...
This paper illustrates, primarily by reviewing reviews from The Hobbit to “The History of Middle-ear...
Considers the influence of some of Tolkien’s earliest childhood reading, the Andrew Lang fairy books...
Proposes an intriguing solution to the question of Tolkien and Lewis’s estrangement in 1949: that it...
Analyzes a number of explanations proposed by biographers and others for Tolkien’s antipathy to Lewi...
Analyzes a number of explanations proposed by biographers and others for Tolkien’s antipathy to Lewi...
Although J.R.R. Tolkien’s reputation in recent years has benefited immensely from Peter Jackson’s fi...
Review of Shauna Caughey, ed., Revisiting Narnia: Fantasy, Myth and Religion in C. S. Lewis’s Chron...
“Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about s...
Responds to a critique that his Planet Narnia thesis does not take into account Lewis’s letter to La...
A reading of the Narnian chronicles as fantasy, not Christian allegory, and notes “the tension betwe...
Shows how the medieval model which Lewis articulated in The Discarded Image influenced both the Spac...
A Book of Narnians: The Lion, the Witch, and the Others. C.S. Lewis. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterso...
Review of Rowan Williams, The Lion’s World: A Journey into the Heart of Narnia (Oxford, 2012). 168 p...
Discusses ways in which criticism can or should deal with fantasy, and examines several critics’ tak...
Review of Salwa Khoddam, Mythopoeic Narnia: Memory, Metaphor, and Metamorphoses in The Chronicles of...
This paper illustrates, primarily by reviewing reviews from The Hobbit to “The History of Middle-ear...
Considers the influence of some of Tolkien’s earliest childhood reading, the Andrew Lang fairy books...