
Tag: Personal Heresy
C. S. Lewis’s Great Experiment
January 26th, 2015
A book few readers of C. S. Lewis will ever voluntarily pick up has the unwieldy, even forbidding title, An Experiment in Criticism. The title conceals more than it reveals. An experiment in what? And criticism of whom? The title doesn’t tell. It’s the classic book that you need to know what it’s about before […]
That's Why They Call it "Fiction"
July 15th, 2008
Copyright 2008 by Bruce L. Edwards. (Click here for Permissions information) The genre of fiction, by modern reckoning, consists of invented stories of various lengths that depict the actions and monitor the thoughts of imaginary characters in their engagement with the conflicts and circumstances that ensue. Novels, tales, vignettes, novellas, short stories, are among the […]
Thinking Christianly Re: Auto/biography
July 5th, 2008
Copyright 2008 by Bruce L. Edwards. (Click here for Permissions information) The genres of biography and autobiography refer, literally, to writing (“graphing”) a life (“bio”), one’s own or someone else’s. In the West, they are regarded as fact-driven works created to capture and preserve the life—and usually the times—of notable individuals. Biographies are presumed to […]
An Introduction to The Personal Heresy
June 21st, 2008
To be published in August, 2008, as introduction to The Personal Heresy, reprinted by Concordia University Press, ed, Dr. Joel Heck. The Personal Heresy: An Introduction Dr. Bruce L. Edwards Professor of English and Africana Studies Bowling Green State University (Ohio) In The Personal Heresy, we find C. S. Lewis “at work,” so to speak, […]
Jack's "Personal Heresy": The Politics of Poetics
March 20th, 2008
The Personal Heresy is another important work in Lewis’s canon that few people outside of literary studies will have noticed, but one whose impact in accounting for Lewis’s journey of faith and the role of “objective value” in his thinking cannot be underestimated. “The Personal Heresy” refers both to (1) a menacing concept C. S. […]
