The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community - Softcover

Glyer, Diana Pavlac

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0873389913 ISBN 13: 9780873389914

Verlag: Kent State University Press, 2008

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Book by Glyer Diana Pavlac

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"In her book-length study, Glyer stands on the shoulders of giants, and yet with balance, style, and sheer hard work she manages to dwarf them. In particular, she completes nearly twenty years of work by updating and even surpassing Humphrey Carpenter's The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Their Friends. In so doing, Glyer has crafted an eminently readable and thoroughly scholarly book She explores in depth and in careful detail the ways that Lewis and Tolkien and their friends wrote in community, and points to collaboration as a key not only to understanding the Inklings but also to comprehending their several writing processes." "If there is one book that really has impressed me, it is Diana Glyer's The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community. This book is a must have for Tolkien and Inkling lovers!" -- Pieter Collier

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This book offers a rare glimpse into the creative workings of the Inklings.The creators of Narnia and Middle-earth, C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien were close friends and professional colleagues. They met frequently with a community of fellow writers at Oxford in the 1930s and 1940s, all sharing their works-in-progress. The group became known as the Inklings.This important study challenges the standard interpretation that Lewis, Tolkien, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, and the other Inklings had little influence on one another's work, drawing on the latest research in composition studies and the sociology of the creative process. Diana Glyer invites readers into the heart of the group, examining diary entries and personal letters and carefully comparing the rough drafts of their manuscripts with their final, published work.Her analysis not only demonstrates the high level of mutual influence that characterized this writers group but also provides a lively and compelling picture of how writers and other creative artists challenge, correct, and encourage one another as they work together in community.

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• Verlag: Kent State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0873389913
• ISBN 13: 9780873389914
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288