Reason and Imagination in C. S. Lewis

<I>This is a <a href=http://www.eerdmans.com/Pag%20es/About/Books-on-%20Demand.aspx>print on demand</a> book and is therefore non- returnable.</I><BR /><BR /> The first study of C. S. Lewis to offer a detailed examination of <I>Till We Have Faces</I> Peter J. Schakel's new book is also the first to explore the tension between reason and imagination that significantly shaped Lewis's thinking and writing.<BR /><BR /> Schakel begins with a close analysis of <I>Till We Have Faces</I> which leads the reader through the plot clarifying its themes as it discusses structure symbols and allusions.<BR /><BR /> The second part of the book surveys Lewis's works tracing the tension between reason and imagination. In the works of the thirties and forties reason is in the ascendant; from the early fifties on in works such as the Chronicles of Narnia there is an increased emphasis on imagination — which culminates in the fine "myth retold" <I>Till We Have Faces</I>. Imagination and reason are reconciled finally in works of the early sixties such as <I>A Grief Observed</I> and <I>Letters to Malcolm</I>.