Usable:
Walter Hooper. "Narnia: The Author, The Critics, and The Tale." Children's Literature 3 (1974): 12-22. Project MUSE. TTU Library, Lubbock, TX. 9 Jul. 2009
Walter Hooper, the literary advisor for Lewis’ estate and once private secretary to Lewis speaks highly of C.S. Lewis’ writing ability while breaking down his affinity for The Narnia Books. Hooper states “Lewis is generally thought to have been the best-read man of his time” (13). Hooper attributes “the combination of his vast learning, his superior abilities as a prose-stylist, and his rich and vivid imagination” to the reasons for the success of Lewis’ Narnia books (13). Hooper goes on to describe the different attitudes readers can work-up from C.S. Lewis’ work, also uncovering some of the praiseworthy symbolism throughout Narnia. Hooper’s article is useful to this (my) report in giving an academic account of C.S. Lewis’ ability to write fiction, appeal to his audience, and use the literary element of symbolism in order to make his point.
Dennis B. Quinn. "The Narnia Books of C. S. Lewis: Fantastic or Wonderful?." Children's Literature 12 (1984): 105-121. Project MUSE. TTU Library, Lubbock, TX. 6 Apr. 2009
Dennis Quinn offers “a few cautionary words about the genre [fantasy] itself and about one of its most popular practitioners, C.S. Lewis”, while trying “to apply the distinction between the wonderful and the fantastic to Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia” (105, 108). To carryout his purpose, Quinn identifies and explains “the literary context in which Lewis wrote” to be in the neoplatonic tradition (108). He compares Lewis’ story with other classic poems and children’s books to reveal why the Chronicles are more a hybrid of wonder and fantasy by mere definition. Even though Quinn states his strong dislike for Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia, this article is useful to this report. This article provides solid insight into C.S. Lewis’ literary academicism within Narnia from the not-so-favoring point of view of Dennis Quinn, who ends up conceding, “the fantasy of Lewis is popular” (118).
Wain, John. "C.S. Lewis." American Scholar 50.1 (1980): 73. Humanities International Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Nov. 2009.
John Wain gives a brief and concise bibliography of C.S. Lewis within his essay. As a pupil of Lewis at Oxford, Wain is able to compile facts and personal experiences and observations of the literary genius. Lewis’ broad range of knowledge from everything philosophical and historical prevented what John Wain calls “parochiality, faddishness, and general loss of perspective” (78). John Wain proves Lewis to be a legitimate literary giant through his life-style and teaching from the perspective of a literary academic and student of C.S. Lewis, a man Wain claims “thought literature was something to rejoice in” (80).
Huttar, Charles A. “C. S. Lewis, T. S. Eliot, and the Milton Legacy: The Nativity Ode Revisited.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 44.3 (2002): 324-348. Project MUSE. TTU Library, Lubbock, TX. 3 November 2009.
Charles Huttar speaks highly of C.S. Lewis’ literary ability through his adaptation of Milton’s Nativity Ode. While comparing Lewis and Milton, Huttar states that “Lewis’s eminence as scholar and critic has always been acknowledged, but in much of the academy his fiction and poetry have yet to receive the attention they deserve” (325). Huttar even makes the case that T.S. Eliot was also “acknowledging Lewis’s contributions to a degree that seems not yet to be fully appreciated” during Lewis’ reign (324). All in all, Huttar offers good support to C.S. Lewis’ academic credibility.
Still to be reviewed:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/ViewContentServlet?contentType=Article&Filename=Published/EmeraldFullTextArticle/Articles/1710270403.html
Wheat, Andrew The Road Before Him: Allegory, Reason, and Romanticism in C.S. Lewis' The Polgrim's Regress.
Why We Always Need Socrates: Some Unfashionable, Unprogressive Thoughts on Teachers, Teaching, Curriculum, and the Theory of Knowledge, with Reference and Thanks to Socrates, Pascal, and C.S. Lewis. By: Aeschliman, M. D., Journal of Education, 00220574, 2007, Vol. 188, Issue 3
"IN LIVING COLOUR." Saturday Evening Post 278.2 (2006): 23. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition. EBSCO. Web. 1 Nov. 2009.
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