Present concerns / C.S. Lewis ; edited by Walter Hooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963

Contributor:

Hooper, Walter.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English essays--20th century.

English essays.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

108 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1986]

Summary:

All but two of the essays here first appeared in newspapers and magazines, and, although their subjects are wide-ranging, they all share an infusion of Lewis's characteristic sanity and persuasiveness. In those essays between 1940 and 1945, Lewis reflects on questions generated by the war: Democratic values, the need for an updated chivalry, and the cynicism of the modern soldier. Other essays examine the threats to educational and spiritual fulfillment, while "Sex in Literature" and "On Living in the Atomic Age" address literary censorship and our very human survival--issues debated even more passionately today than in Lewis's lifetime.

Contents:

The necessity of chivalry

Equality

Three kinds of men

My first school

Is English doomed

Democratic education

A dream

Blimpophobia

Private Bates

Hedonics

After priggery, what?

Modern man and his categories of thought

Talking about bicycles

On living in an atomic age

The empty universe

Prudery and philology

Interim report

Is history bunk?

Sex in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

015173948X

9780151739486

0156738406

9780156738408

OCLC:

14240103

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