{"title":"‘De Arca Noe’: An Early Lewis-Barfield Collaboration","authors":"Sarah R.A. Waters, A.T. Reyes","doi":"10.3366/ink.2023.0199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2023.0199","url":null,"abstract":"This essay brings to light a newly identified and previously unpublished poem by C.S. Lewis and Owen Barfield. The poem is written in Latin and is entitled ‘De Arca Noe’. The essay presents the poem for the first time, transcribing the Latin (with a prose translation) and providing detailed context. The contextual discussion situates the poem within other poetic collaborations by Lewis and Barfield, explains why it has hitherto slipped under the radar of Lewis and Barfield scholars based on its archival context (particularly at the Bodleian), considers earlier fragmentary texts which are closely related to ‘De Arca Noe’, proposes a date (with rationale) for this undated manuscript text, and provides a full transcription with discussion of the physical copies of the collaborative working draft of ‘De Arca Noe’, as well as a translation with notes to the Latin text. Finally, it considers ‘De Arca Noe’ in relation to Lewis’s other more famous poetic handling of the Noah story, ‘The Sailing of the Ark’.","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139328519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Austin M. Freeman, Tolkien Dogmatics: Theology through Mythology with the Maker of Middle-earth","authors":"Lisa Coutras","doi":"10.3366/ink.2023.0201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2023.0201","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139326049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Survival or Revival?: C.S. Lewis's Medievalism in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe","authors":"Conrad van Dijk","doi":"10.3366/ink.2023.0196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2023.0196","url":null,"abstract":"C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe has often been considered overly eclectic in its use of mythologies and literary sources. This essay argues that the unity of the story is not impaired by frequent allusions to previous texts but is grounded in Lewis's particular brand of medievalism, which encourages a playful renewal of medieval romance, not least by means of a rewriting of authors such as Thomas Malory. Lewis's use of allusion and pastiche help explain many of his artistic choices, from the characterization of the White Witch to the archaic language in the Hunt for the White Stag. The essay uncovers several important, unrecognized allusions and demonstrates that Lewis's use of his medieval source material is not only humorous but also purposeful and culturally relevant.","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139329512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dorothy L. Sayers, The Man Born to be King. Wade Annotated Edition. Edited by Kathryn Wehr","authors":"Christine A. Colón","doi":"10.3366/ink.2023.0207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2023.0207","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139329371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The First and Lowest Operation of Pain: C.S. Lewis and His Image of ‘God’s Megaphone’ for Human Suffering","authors":"A. Smilde","doi":"10.3366/ink.2023.0198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2023.0198","url":null,"abstract":"C.S. Lewis’s metaphor of ‘God’s megaphone’, an image he employed to illustrate an idea about human suffering, appears at a certain stage of his argument in the central chapter (ch. 6) of his first work of popular theology, The Problem of Pain (1940). Among the numerous images invoked throughout his writings, none perhaps is more widely known than this. From the earliest book-length study of Lewis (1949) onward, numerous quotations, allusions, and discussions that include the image of the megaphone can be found in the literature on Lewis and elsewhere; in 1957 the Dutch translation of Lewis’s book was published under the title Gods megafoon. While it would take a comprehensive reception history of The Problem of Pain for any definitive claims to be possible, the history of the ‘megaphone’ as cited in the literature suggests that this image has dominated perceptions of the book’s overall argument. The present essay will attempt to show that this dominance is a fact, and argues that this dominance finds no support in Lewis’s original argument.","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139330707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"José María Miranda Boto, Law, Government, and Society in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Works","authors":"Mary M. Keys","doi":"10.3366/ink.2023.0205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2023.0205","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139326334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prometheus on Perelandra: The Inversion of the Satanic Hero in C.S. Lewis’s Perelandra","authors":"N. Fayard","doi":"10.3366/ink.2023.0197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2023.0197","url":null,"abstract":"Approaching the character of Satan in A Preface to Paradise Lost, C.S. Lewis asserted that the Romantics’ admiration for Milton’s angelic rebel as a heroic figure was misplaced. It is a passing reference, but the comment revealed Lewis’s discomfort with the concept of the romantic hero. Two years later, he would continue his investigation of this archetype with his publication of Perelandra. While the way Lewis reworked facets of Miltonic’s Paradise Lost in his extra-terrestrial Garden of Eden have been well studied, the obvious sources for Lewis’s work loom so large in its scholarship that the similar reimagining of Romantic concepts and character types in which he engaged has received little attention. Yet the presence of Romantic echoes among all of the medieval allusions is quite telling. Lewis seems to make particular use of Shelly’s Prometheus Unbound, his favourite poem, in much the same way he does Paradise Lost, adapting that which he loved while ‘correcting’ that which he felt went wrong. This explores this recasting of Romantic concepts and observe Lewis’s efforts to bring the Byronic hero in line with the Christian cosmology of the Ransom trilogy, trying to paint a picture of authentically realized humanity.","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139327193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Don W. King, Inkling, Historian, Soldier, and Brother: A Life of Warren Hamilton Lewis","authors":"Bruce R. Johnson","doi":"10.3366/ink.2023.0203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2023.0203","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":"86 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139330948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Carved in Granite: C.S. Lewis’s Revivalism in The Nameless Isle","authors":"Dennis Wilson Wise","doi":"10.3366/ink.2023.0195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2023.0195","url":null,"abstract":"The alliterative poetics used by C.S. Lewis have often proved a critical challenge for scholars without the right kind of medievalist training. In Lewis’s most ambitious contribution to the Modern Alliterative Revival, The Nameless Isle, I argue that he has a strong interest in maintaining fidelity to the Old English alliterative metre, particularly in regards to Sievers types and hypermetric verses, yet he partakes of several adaptations and concessions to Modern English that makes his narrative romance, in some ways, a more successful model than Tolkien’s contemporary ‘arch-purist’ text, The Fall of Arthur. By and large, while questions about a poet’s faithfulness to a historical alliterative tradition are important, deviations from strict fidelity can be even more important yet – they reveal the specific metrical challenges faced by poets in trying to resurrect the alliterative metre. Only by analysing the metrical data behind a poem like The Nameless Isle can we understand what a revivalist may be specifically trying to accomplish with their revivalism.","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139330574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}