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Author:

Dickerson, Matthew T., 1963-

Title:

Narnia and the Fields of Arbol : the environmental vision of C.S. Lewis / Matthew Dickerson and David O'Hara.

Publisher:

University Press of Kentucky,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xiii, 304 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Lewis, C. S.--(Clive Staples),--1898-1963--Criticism and interpretation.
Environmental protection in literature.
Environmental policy in literature.

Other Authors:

O'Hara, David, 1969-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-287) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: ecological crisis, environmental critique, and Christian imagination -- What he thought about everything -- Nature and meaning in the history of Narnia -- The Magician's Nephew: creation and Narnian ecology -- The Last Battle and the end of Narnia -- Out of the Silent Planet: re-imagining ecology -- Perelandra: creation and conscience -- That Hideous Strength: assault on the soil and soul of England -- The re-enchantment of creation.

Summary:

Matthew T. Dickerson and David O'Hara examine The Chronicles of Narnia and the Ransom books, as well as The Great Divorce, The Abolition of Man, and Lewis's essays and personal correspondence, connecting his writing with that of authors more traditionally associated with environmentalism, such as Wendell Berry, Aldo Leopold, and Gary Snyder. --from publisher description

Series:

Culture of the land

ISBN:

0813125227 (acid-free paper)
9780813125220 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)213840226

LCCN:

2008039350

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

GAAX314 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Peosta (Peosta)