Inklings and King Arthur: J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield on the Matter of Britain Higgins Sorina
Inklings and King Arthur: J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield on the Matter of Britain Higgins Sorina In the midst of war-torn Britain, King Arthur returned in the…
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Inklings and King Arthur: J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield on the Matter of Britain Higgins Sorina
In the midst of war-torn Britain, King Arthur returned in the writings of the Oxford Inklings. Yet each of these major writers tackled serious and relevant questions about government, gender, violence, imperialism, secularism, and spirituality through their stories of the Quest for the Holy Grail. Learn how Tolkien, Lewis, Williams, and Barfield brought hope to their times and our own in their Arthurian literature.Although studies of the "Oxford Inklings" abound, astonishingly enough, none has yet examined their great body of Arthurian work.
"This serious and substantial volume addresses a complex subject that scholars have for too long overlooked. This rigorous and sophisticated volume studies does so for the first time. The contributors show how, in the legends of King Arthur, the Inklings found material not only for escape and consolation, but also,