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

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C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien were members of a writing group known as the Inklings, a group that also included novelist Charles Williams, historian Warren Lewis, and philosopher Owen Barfield. In this groundbreaking book, Diana Glyer invites readers into the heart of their meetings, showing how encouragement, criticism, and collaboration changed The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, and dozens of other important works. While this book is a must for those who read Lewis or Tolkien, it will also appeal to those who are interested in the writing process, small-group interaction, the nature of creativity, and the various ways that artists challenge, correct, and encourage one another as they work together in community.

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"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

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Diana Pavlac Glyer has been widely recognized for her work on Lewis, Tolkien, and the Inklings, including contributions to The Pilgrim's Guide: C. S. Lewis and the Art of Witness; The C. S. Lewis Reader's Encyclopedia; and C. S. Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy. She is the recipient of the Wade Center's Clyde S. Kilby Research Grant (1997) and APU's Chase A. Sawtell Inspirational Teaching Award (2002). Currently, she is a professor of English at Azusa Pacific University.

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  • PublisherKent State Univ Pr
  • Publication date2007
  • ISBN 10 0873388909
  • ISBN 13 9780873388900
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages293
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