C. S. Lewis and the Art of Reading: The Uses of Scholarship and the Pleasures of the Text

C. S. Lewis was one of the major scholars of literature in the 20 century. His contribution to the art of reading deserves a re-consideration and is therefore reconstructed and analysed in this paper. Topcis that are highlighted in this connection are the types of literary scholarship most useful to...

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Published inLinguaculture Vol. 2014; no. 2; pp. 87 - 98
Main Author Kinzel, Till
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published De Gruyter Open 01.12.2014
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press
Subjects
hermeneutics
literary criticism
literary scholarship
literary theory
Milton criticism
pleasures of the text
storytelling
types of readers
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Summary:C. S. Lewis was one of the major scholars of literature in the 20 century. His contribution to the art of reading deserves a re-consideration and is therefore reconstructed and analysed in this paper. Topcis that are highlighted in this connection are the types of literary scholarship most useful to a proper understanding of old texts, the types of readers that exist, the controversies in which Lewis engaged concerning the interpretation of Milton, the importance of philological knowledge for literary scholars as well as the pitfalls of literary criticism. In many respects, C. S. Lewis is at odds with currently fashionable approaches to literature-and thus provides a welcome challenge to dominant paradigms of reading texts.
ISSN:2067-9696
2285-9403
2067-9696
DOI:10.1515/lincu-2015-0028