The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community - Softcover

Glyer, Diana Pavlac

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0873389913 ISBN 13: 9780873389914

Publisher: The Kent State University Press, 2008

Synopsis

The Company They Keep is the first and most complete examination of the Inklings and their close literary collaboration. C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien met each week with a community of fellow writers at Oxford in the 1930s and 1940s, all sharing their works-in-progress. Diana Pavlac Glyer invites readers into the heart of the group, examining diary entries and personal letters and carefully comparing the rough drafts of their manuscripts with their final, published work. Her discoveries not only demonstrates a high level of mutual influence, but it also provides a lively and compelling picture of how writers and other creative artists challenge, correct, and encourage one another when they work together in community.

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From the Back Cover:

"This is an admirably balanced overview of the web of intellectual and literary interactions of the Inklings. I found myself captured by her engaging writing style, the breadth of her research, and the cogency of her argument. Her own work will itself influence the texture of Inklings scholarship for years to come. It's good, very good indeed." --Verlyn Flieger, author of Splintered Light, A Question of Time, and Interrupted Music

"The Company They Keep is an astonishingly thorough work, lucidly and boldly illuminating the collaborative writing processes of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien and their colleagues during the most fruitful period of their careers. Diana Glyer's impressive achievement immediately supersedes in scope and authority all previous treatments of the Inklings in extant biographies and encyclopedia." --Bruce L Edwards, author of Not-a-Tame Lion, Further Up and Further In, and A Rhetoric of Reading

About the Author:

Diana Pavlac Glyer has published extensively on Lewis, Tolkien, and the Inklings, and has received the Clyde S. Kilby Research Grant and the Chase A. Sawtell Inspirational Teaching Award. She is professor of English at Azusa Pacific University.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Kent State University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0873389913
• ISBN 13: 9780873389914
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288