In the midst of war-torn Britain, King Arthur returned in the writings of the Oxford Inklings. -- Aren Roukema , Birkbeck, University of London.
A must read for students of the Inklings.
Lewis at Poets\' Corner This volume follows Arthurian leylines in geographies of myth, history, gender, and culture, uncovering Inklings lodestones and way markers throughout. --Michael Ward, Fellow of Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, and co-editor of C.
S.
The contributors show how, in the legends of King Arthur, the Inklings found material not only for escape and consolation, but also, and more importantly, for exploring moral and spiritual questions of pressing contemporary concern.
This serious and substantial volume addresses a complex subject that scholars have for too long overlooked.
This rigorous and sophisticated volume studies does so for the first time.
Yet each of these major writers tackled serious and relevant questions about government, gender, violence, imperialism, secularism, and spirituality through their stories of the Quest for the Holy Grail.
Although studies of the Oxford Inklings abound, astonishingly enough, none has yet examined their great body of Arthurian work.
Learn how Tolkien, Lewis, Williams, and Barfield brought hope to their times and our own in their Arthurian literature.
In the midst of war-torn Britain, King Arthur returned in the writings of the Oxford Inklings
