Image and Imagination: Essays and Reviews (Canto Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (721 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1107639271 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 391 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Lewis: A Companion and Guide (1996) and (with Roger Lancelyn Green) C. S. S. Lewis (2000, 2004 and 2006) and author of C. Walter Hooper, Literary Adviser to the Estate of C. Lewis: A Biography (1974; revised edition, 2002). Lewis, is editor of the three-volume work The Collected Letters of C. . S. S
Audrey said Image and Imagination: Mostly for English scholars. Image and Imagination is the book you would give to a C.S. Lewis-loving English professor.As always, Lewis’s writing is excellent, and his essays are thought provoking, as far as their topics allow. The simple reason for reading Image and Imagination is that this. "Treading Softly" according to Gord Wilson. In his excellent book about reading, An Experiment in Criticism An Experiment in Criticism (Canto), C.S. Lewis made an argument that there are different kinds of readers. Whether you view this as three or five stars will depend on what sort of reader you are. This is t. "Useful for Lewis scholars, not for lay readers" according to sds. With the exception of a previously unpublished essay, this is just a collection of book reviews Lewis wrote that were printed in a variety of places over the years. Reading reviews of non-contemporary books that one knows little to nothing about is pretty dull. I defin
Lewis gathers together forty book reviews, never before reprinted, as well as four major essays which have been unavailable for many decades. The essays and reviews substantiate his reputation as an eloquent and authoritative critic across a wide range of literature, and as a keen judge of contemporary scholarship, while his reviews of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings will be of additional interest to scholars and students of fantasy.. S. This selection from the writings of C. A fifth essay, 'Image and Imagination', is published for the first time. Taken together, the collection presents some of Lewis's finest literary criticism a
"Almost nothing Lewis wrote is without apercu, often unexpected, always cogently expressed." Times Literary Supplement