Re: Authors, critics, readers...
J J R (jrovira@juno.com)
Fri, 20 Nov 1998 18:42:00 -0500 (EST)
heh...Lewis was an Oxford scholar (medieval and renaissance) who's
probably best known for his Chronicles of Narnia and The Screwtape
Letters. His scholarly works begin (for all practical purposes) with The
Allegory of Love (about Romantic lit) and ends with The Discarded Image
(a good study in the medieval mindset).
Jim
On Fri, 20 Nov 1998 23:44:32 +0100 Abra <abra@post6.tele.dk> writes:
>J J R wrote:
>
>> Nah, what I meant (not necessarily what I said "that" time :) ) was
>that
>> we can't read biographical information about the author and come to
>> conclusions about what of their life is in their work. THAT'S why I
>> cited C.S. Lewis. He said everyone who's ever done that was
>wrong--in
>> his case.
>
>Ah, OK... And you´re right... But people tend to do so if they know
>even just a little bit about an author... It´s easier to NOT do so if
>you don´t know anything...
>
>I´ve read more than once that the soldier in "For Esmé" was JDS
>himself,
>but eventhough he was a soldier at the time, I´ve never read anybody´s
>
>definate reasons for believing that...
>
>On a side-note: I´ve been wracking my brain - CS Lewis was the one
>wrote Alice in Wonderland, right???
>
>Abra
>
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