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Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was a prolific British writer, lay theologian, and Oxford professor of literature. Over the course of his life, he published more than 10 novels, two books about Christian theology, and many essays, novellas, and treatises, along with several collections of poems. In The Discarded Image, Lewis demonstrates the full scope and depth of his literary expertise. Lewis’s role in this book is that of a guide or even a kind of literary psychopomp who steers readers through the convoluted landscape of medieval literature. He assumes that his readers are literature students with a working knowledge of many of the texts and authors that he mentions. This positioning reflects the fact that The Discarded Image is adapted from a lecture series that he gave while teaching at Oxford University. Collecting the series into physical form is a way for Lewis to make his teachings accessible to any curious mind wanting to better understand The Medieval Relationship to Literature.
Just as writers like Apuleius brought Plato’s ideas to the Medieval Era, so too does Lewis bring medieval ideas to the present.
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A Grief Observed
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Mere Christianity
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Out of the Silent Planet
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Perelandra
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Prince Caspian
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Surprised by Joy
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That Hideous Strength
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The Abolition of Man
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The Four Loves
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The Great Divorce
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The Horse And His Boy
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The Last Battle
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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The Magician's Nephew
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The Pilgrim's Regress
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The Problem of Pain
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The Screwtape Letters
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The Silver Chair
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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Till We Have Faces
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Appearance Versus Reality
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Art
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Books About Art
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Books & Literature
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Colonialism & Postcolonialism
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Earth Day
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Medieval Literature / Middle Ages
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Philosophy, Logic, & Ethics
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Religion & Spirituality
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