The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Canto)

Lewis, C. S.

ISBN 10: 0521477352 / ISBN 13: 9780521477352

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Beschreibung

Softcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. C.S. Lewis was an Irish-born scholar, novelist, and author of about 40 books, many of them on Christian apologetics, including The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity. His works of greatest lasting fame may be The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of seven children's books that have become classics of fantasy literature.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Canto)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0521477352
• ISBN-13: 9780521477352
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: As New
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Literature and Criticism

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Inhaltsangabe

C. S. Lewis's The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, as historical and cultural background to the literature of the middle ages and renaissance. It describes the 'image' discarded by later ages as 'the medieval synthesis itself, the whole organisation of their theology, science and history into a single, complex, harmonious mental model of the universe'. This, Lewis's last book, was hailed as 'the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind'.

Críticas

'Wise, illuminating, companionable, it may well come to be seen as Lewis' s best book.' The Observer

'... erudite and graceful, filled with anecdote and analogy, illuminating the images of the past.' Los Angeles Times

'... his wonderful gusto, the clarity of his style, the wit of his comments and analogies, the range of his learning and the liveliness of his mind are displayed to the full, warmed by a prevailing good humour.' Helen Gardner, The Listener