The British novelist and essayist Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was an established literary figure whose impact is increasingly recognized by scholars and teachers. On November 29, 1898, Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland. He was the son...
Once best known as a Christian apologist and the author of The Screwtape Letters, and admired by at least two generations of scholars as a teacher and literary historian, C. S. Lewis may eventually be most famous for the seven books, collectively referre...
Although C. S. Lewis published, as Peter J. Kreeft notes in his C. S. Lewis: A Critical Essay, "some sixty first-quality works of literary history, literary criticism, theology, philosophy, autobiography, Biblical studies, sermons, formal and informal es...
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold is a 1956 parallel novel by C. S. Lewis. It is a retelling of the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche, based on a chapter of The Golden Ass of Apuleius. The first part is written from the perspective of Psyche's older sister...
Till We Have Built Jerusalem THE ARCHITECTURE OF RALPH ADAMS CRAM AND HIS OFFICE by ETHAN ANTHONY W.W. Norton, 176 pages, $60 Reviewed by Matthew Alderman RALPH ADAMS CRAM-the twentieth-century church builder, neomedieval social critic, spinner of ghost stories, and modern knighterrant-is...
In her 1999 book On Beauty and Being Just, Elaine Scarry argues afresh for the importance of beauty as an ethical, intellectual, and spiritual concern. According to Scarry, over two decades of scholarship in the humanities have left us almost "beauty-blind" by largely ignoring...
In the following essay, Bartlett provides a feminist reading of Till We Have Faces from the theoretical perspective of humanistic psychology. According to Bartlett, feminists and humanistic psychologists would object to Lewis's presentation of "self-effacing women" who submit to male control.
The driving motif of Till We Have Faces is the development of the soul, a motif explored allegorically in one of Lewis' earliest works, The Pilgrim's Regress. Here Lewis has recast the familiar myth of Cupid and Psyche, possibly attracted initially to the enchanting symbolism of the butterfly frequently associated with Psyche. Transformed from a creature of the earth to a creature of the air, from a creature that gropes in the darkness to a creature that flutters in the light, the butterfly se...
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