Re: authorial intent

From: Jim Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu>
Date: Mon Oct 28 2002 - 22:09:52 EST

That's probably true of most people, I think. I actually read Lewis'
prose before I read his fiction, but it's really hard to compare, say,
_Mere Christianity_ with the Narnia series or _Till We Have Faces_.
Daniel mentioned _Discarded Image_, and I have to agree there...that's a
powerful book. I could appreciate that one almost as much as his
fiction.

But still, Lewis in particular wrote far more pages of non-fiction than
fiction, and most of that was literary criticism or history. Most of it
hasn't been republished.

Jim

Kim Johnson wrote:

> --- Jim Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu> wrote:
> > To me, the point was that they wrote both that and
> > good criticism and
> > theory...
> >
>
> okay, i agree. but for pleasure, (and in the sense of
> being grateful they existed and wrote texts), it's the
> creative work i think, i turn to.
>
> kim
>
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