San Antonio College Library

"This book names the way in which Lewis's presentations of Christianity in both his fiction and non-fiction depend upon the conventions of the public sphere"--Page 4 of cover.

Traces the life of the eminent British writer, scholar, and social critic, from his youth in Ulster to his death in England in 1963.

"In C.S. Lewis and the Middle Ages, medievalist Robert Boenig explores Lewis's personal and professional engagement with medieval literature and culture and argues convincingly that medieval modes of creativity had a profound impact on Lewis's imaginative fiction."--Cover.

"Christian apologist, literary historian, scholar, critic, writer of science fiction and children's books, he was one of the more prolific authors of his time," read the London Times obituary of C.S. Lewis after his death on November 22, 1963. "As a Christian writer his influence was marked; he caught and held the attention of those usually apathetic to religion, of lapsed churchgoers and of people who liked to think themselves agnostics; ... he made...

Although C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) achieved a level of popularity as a fiction writer, literary scholars have tended to view him as a minor figure working in an insignificant genre - science fiction - or have pigeon-holed him as a Christian apologist and moralist. In C.S. Lewis in Context, Doris T. Myers places his work in the literary milieu of his times and the public context of language rather than in the private realm of personal habits or relationships....

A critical study analyzing the works and the influences on the literary career of C.S. Lewis.

In his youth, C.S. Lewis served in the British army, was wounded in France, entered into his affair with Janie Moore, and wrote and published his first book of poems. To augment the limited accounts of this period, Lewis's life is presented with the general and specific background which makes it more meaningful, particularly as it throws light on his character. The romantic myth of him as a 'soldier-poet' is dispelled, largely through an extensive...

The author "shows how the two sides of Lewis's personality, the "Dreamer" and the "Mentor," affected his writing" and then "discusses the formative biographical events in Lewis's life and offers an estimate of Lewis's achievement and legacy as a writer."--Cover.