
C. S. Lewis Resources
Selected Scholarship on CSL
Sundry Essays by Bruce L. Edwards on CSL
- Screwtape: What’s Going On? My answers to 13 questions posed by a documentary filmmaker on the significance of Screwtape.
- “Preface to C. S. Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy,” my introduction to the 4 volume reference set to be published in April, 2007, by Praeger Perspectives.
- My Essay, “Who Were the Inklings?” A brief account of their identities and accomplishments.
- Not a Tame Wardrobe: 2 Views & They’re Both Mine. My review of Andrew Adamson’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
- A 107th Birthday Tribute to C. S. Lewis, (Updated-previously and often web-anthologized)
- C. S. Lewis: The Gloves Come Off. The New Yorker and New York Times take aim at Lewis and his admirers. See my Nov. 19th blog essay, “The Gloves Come Off. . .”
- C. S. Lewis: Not a Tame Author. All of Lewis’s work are in print: what does this mean? See my earlier blog essay, “Not a Tame Author”
- C. S. Lewis and Serenity. What would Lewis’s take be perchance on the new S/F movie, Serenity be? Why did he like science-fiction so much, and the genre so appealing? I try to answer these Qs here.
- News Report on my Seminar, “Reenchanting the Cosmos,” February, 2004, at the Cove in Asheville, NC (Just had to give you this nice Report)
- C. S. Lewis and the Case for Responsible Scholarship What made Lewis’s works so cogent and appealing? Answers here.
- Centennial tribute article for Sunday, November 29, 1998: C. S. Lewis: Mere Christian
- C. S. Lewis: Public Scholar and Christian Written to celebrate Lewis’s unique qualities as a teacher and scholar.
- Overview of Lewis’s Life and Relevant Sources for Study (I need to update this! See my blog for more up to date comments on scholarship)
- Summary and Analysis of Lewis’s Surprised by Joy ; I wrote this for folks who had trouble with this work or failed to see its genius.
- (My fairly uncomplimentary) Review of A. N. Wilson’s Biography of Lewis: C. S. Lewis
- (My not so happy) Review of the Richard Attenborough film, Shadowlands
- Lewis Redux: “A Postmodern Dialogue” This is the original, but slightly rewritten in my new book, Further Up and Further In.
- The Taste of the Pineapple: Essays on C. S. Lewis as Critic, Reader, and Imaginative Writer (Bowling Green: The Popular Press, 1988).
- A Rhetoric of Reading: C. S. Lewis’s Defense of Western Literacy (Provo: Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature, 1986).
- “Literary Criticism: C. S. Lewis: Reader as Reluctant Critic” in Tom Martin, Ed., Reading the Classics with C. S. Lewis(Baker, 2000). 330-48.
- The C. S. Lewis Readers Encyclopedia Jeff Schultz and John West, Eds. Served on Editorial Board. (Zondervan, 1998). Wrote/co-wrote 25 entries.
- “A Thoroughly Converted Man: C. S. Lewis in the Public Square” in David Mills, Ed., The Pilgrim’s Guide: C. S. Lewis and the Art of Witness (Eerdmans, 1998), 27-40.
- “Toward a Rhetoric of Victorian Fantasy Criticism: C. S. Lewis’s Readings of George MacDonald and William Morris,” in Kath Filmer, ed., The Victorian Fantasists: Essays on Culture, Society, and Belief in Victorian Mythopoeic Literature (London: Macmillan, 1990).
- 1963 Interview with C. S. Lewis by Sherwood Wirt.
- Leadership U Narnia Materials
- C. S. Lewis Literary Chronology
- C. S. Lewis Bibliography
- Gregg Easterbrook’s Great “In Defense of Narnia” Post (The Atlantic, October, 2001)
- The Wade Center: A touch of Narnia in Illinois
- Frank Baum’s OZ vs. Lewis’s Narnia
- Readers cross religious lines for C.S. Lewis
- What Lewis Read
- Interview with Pauline Baynes, illustrator of Narnia
- Virtual Tour of Oxford–Eagle and Child
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