Although both Orwell and Lewis warned against the evils of totalitarianism in their novels, they did it from different theological and political perspectives. Both mythopoeic works recognize the danger in attempts to destroy myth
C. S. Lewis was a prolific and versatile author who wrote popular theology, literary criticism, and ...
Praises The Great Divorce because in it the two sides of the author—“the atomically rational Lewis a...
Traces moral, religious, and creative parallels between MacDonald and Tolkien. Finds that Christiani...
Introduces the concept of “narrative dualism” to understand both Lewis’s technique and his authorial...
Notes that critics have complained about the “pettiness” of evil characters in Lewis’s works, implyi...
Compares how the three authors shaped their mythopoeic literature—Tolkien as a true creator, Lewis a...
Examines how Lewis’s idea of “transposition […] the incorporation of the eternal into the material” ...
Counters criticism of fantasy as morally negligible or as leading to morbid escapism; instead applie...
Contends That Hideous Strength and 1984 have the same theme, “that an objective view of morality is ...
Examines the works of Tolkien, Lewis, and Williams for what they have to say about the nature of evi...
Speculates about reasons for comparative critical neglect of Lewis’s early poetry collection. Discus...
Discusses Lewis’s theory of mythology as “an intensely Christian one” that is “essential to an under...
Argues that despite their differences, Tolkien and Orwell share a similar response to absolute power...
Examines the imagined medievalism of Lewis’s That Hideous Strength and the Narnia books, and shows h...
Examines links between Chesterton and Tolkien “developing from a mutually strong religious convictio...
C. S. Lewis was a prolific and versatile author who wrote popular theology, literary criticism, and ...
Praises The Great Divorce because in it the two sides of the author—“the atomically rational Lewis a...
Traces moral, religious, and creative parallels between MacDonald and Tolkien. Finds that Christiani...
Introduces the concept of “narrative dualism” to understand both Lewis’s technique and his authorial...
Notes that critics have complained about the “pettiness” of evil characters in Lewis’s works, implyi...
Compares how the three authors shaped their mythopoeic literature—Tolkien as a true creator, Lewis a...
Examines how Lewis’s idea of “transposition […] the incorporation of the eternal into the material” ...
Counters criticism of fantasy as morally negligible or as leading to morbid escapism; instead applie...
Contends That Hideous Strength and 1984 have the same theme, “that an objective view of morality is ...
Examines the works of Tolkien, Lewis, and Williams for what they have to say about the nature of evi...
Speculates about reasons for comparative critical neglect of Lewis’s early poetry collection. Discus...
Discusses Lewis’s theory of mythology as “an intensely Christian one” that is “essential to an under...
Argues that despite their differences, Tolkien and Orwell share a similar response to absolute power...
Examines the imagined medievalism of Lewis’s That Hideous Strength and the Narnia books, and shows h...
Examines links between Chesterton and Tolkien “developing from a mutually strong religious convictio...
C. S. Lewis was a prolific and versatile author who wrote popular theology, literary criticism, and ...
Praises The Great Divorce because in it the two sides of the author—“the atomically rational Lewis a...
Traces moral, religious, and creative parallels between MacDonald and Tolkien. Finds that Christiani...