The Inklings and King Arthur
| The Inklings and King Arthur: J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield on the Matter of Britain | |
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| Author | Sørina Higgins, editor |
| Publisher | Apocryphile Press |
| Released | 22 December 2017 |
| Format | Softcover |
| Pages | 566 |
| ISBN | 1944769897 |
The Inklings and King Arthur: J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield on the Matter of Britain is a collection of scholarly essays edited by Sørina Higgins on the Matter of Britain.
From the publisher
Will King Arthur ever return to England? He already has.
In the midst of war-torn Britain, King Arthur returned in the writings of the Oxford Inklings. Learn how J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Owen Barfield brought hope to their times and our own in their Arthurian literature.
Although studies of the "Oxford Inklings" abound, astonishingly enough, none has yet examined their great body of Arthurian work. Yet each of these major writers tackled serious and relevant questions about government, gender, violence, imperialism, secularism, and spirituality through their stories of the Quest for the Holy Grail. This rigorous and sophisticated volume studies does so for the first time.
Contents
- Introduction—Present and Past: The Inklings and King Arthur
- by Sørina Higgins
- List of Abbreviations
- Inventory of Inklings Arthuriana
- Texts and Intertexts
- 1. The Matter of Logres: Arthuriana and the Inklings
- by Sørina Higgins
- 2. Medieval Arthurian Sources for the Inklings: An Overview
- by Holly Ordway
- 3. Mixed Metaphors and Hyperlinked Worlds: A Study of Intertextuality in C.S. Lewis' Ransom Cycle
- Brenton D.G. Dickieson
- 4. Houses of Healing: The Idea ov Avalon in Inklings Fiction and Poetry
- Charles A. Huttar
- 5. Shape and Direction: Human Consciousness in the Inklings' Mythological Geographies
- Christopher Gaertner
- Histories Past
- 6. From Myth to History and Back Again: Inklings Arthuriana in Historical Context
- by Yannick Imbert
- 7. "All Men Live by Tales": Chesterton's Arthurian Poems
- J. Cameron Moore
- 8. The Elegiac Fantasy of Past Christedom in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fall of Arthur
- by Cory Grewell
