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- C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra: Reshaping the Image of the Cosmos
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: The Kent State University Press
summary
C. S. Lewis considered his novel Perelandra (1943) among his favorite works. A triumph of imaginative science fiction writing, Perelandra—part of Lewis’s “Space Trilogy”—is also theologically ambitious. C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra: Reshaping the Image of the Cosmos argues that point and also how the novel synthesizes the three traditions of cosmology, mythology, and Christianity. The first group of essays considers the cosmological implications of the world Lewis depicts in Perelandra while the second group examines the relationship between morality and meaning in Lewis’s created cosmology of the world of Perelandra.
This work brings together a world-class group of literary and theological scholars and Lewis specialists that includes Paul S. Fid-des, Monika B. Hilder, Sanford Schwartz, Michael Travers, and Michael Ward. The collection is enhanced by Walter Hooper’s reminiscences of his conversations with Lewis about Perelandra and the possible provenance of the stories in Lewis’s imagination.
C. S. Lewis scholars and devoted readers alike will find this volume indispensible to the understanding of this canonical work of speculative fiction.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. 2-5
- Abbreviations for Works by C. S. Lewis
- pp. xvi-xviii
- The Perelandran Cosmos
- pp. 11-12
- Morality and Meaning in Perelandra
- pp. 97-98
- Perelandran Diction: A Study in Meaning
- pp. 99-121
- Contributors
- pp. 156-158
- Back Cover
- p. 180
Additional Information
ISBN
9781612777191
Related ISBN(s)
9781606351833
MARC Record
OCLC
867740639
Pages
150
Launched on MUSE
2013-10-21
Language
English
Open Access
No