Truths Breathed Through Silver: The Inklings' Moral and Mythopoeic Legacy
Joe R. Christopher · Jonathan Himes · Salwa Khoddam
Mar 2009 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Representing a decade of scholarly activity within the C. S. Lewis & Inklings Society (CSLIS), this book challenges readers to examine the complex factors that shaped the theological perspectives, cultural concerns, and literary conventions in the works of the Oxford Inklings. The mythopoeic fiction that Lewis, Tolkien, Williams, and their associates enjoyed and composed put mortal humanity in contact with the immortal and the divine. The selection of papers in this volume, intended not only for experts but also for undergraduates and general readers, includes keynote presentations by Joe R. Christopher, Rolland Hein, Kerry Dearborn, David Neuhouser, and Thomas Howard that explore the Inklings legacy of moral mythopoeia, as well as essays that analyze works like Screwtape (Tom Shippey), The Magician s Nephew (Salwa Khoddam), The Silmarillion (Jason Fisher), The Lord of the Rings (David Oberhelman) and The Dark Tower (Jonathan B. Himes). The Inklings believed there was still power in the old myths, and ultimately that there was still truth to fortify humanity in them. Their friendship and their fiction provided these men a forum for entertaining speculative and sometimes unorthodox answers to the complex realities of sacred tradition.
About the author
Dr. Jonathan B. Himes is Assistant Professor of English at John Brown University. His article “What Tolkien Really Did with the Sampo,” Mythlore (2000), analyzes Tolkien’s adaptation of The Kalevala. Other publications include “World’s End Imagery,” Extrapolation (2003) and a collaborative book on the Anglo-Saxon epic fragment Waldere (Minerva, 2005).
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