Lewis scholars and devoted readers alike will find this volume indispensible to the understanding of this canonical work of speculative fiction. I ordered this CD because of the reviews I read here and was quite disappointed. The collection is enhanced by Walter Hooper’s reminiscences of his conversations with Lewis about Perelandra and the possible provenance of the stories in Lewis’s imagination.Ĭ. Hilder, Sanford Schwartz, Michael Travers, and Michael Ward. Review this book and you’ll be entered for a chance to win 50 Review this book. This work brings together a world-class group of literary and theological scholars and Lewis specialists that includes Paul S. Information on buying and collecting Perelandra by Lewis, C S with a guide to first edition identification, points of issue and price and publication history. Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like What major event was Perelandra representing, Why does the Green Lady laugh at Ransom and. Here, the author inserts himself into the world of the novel as its narrator. They don’t breathe, eat, reproduce, or die, and in that sense they resemble thinking minerals more than animals. The first group of essays considers the cosmological implications of the world Lewis depicts in Perelandra while the second group examines the relationship between morality and meaning in Lewis’s created cosmology of the planet Perelandra. The eldila are very different from earthly creatures. Lewis’s Perelandra: Reshaping the Image of the Cosmos explores how the novel synthesizes the three traditions of cosmology, mythology, and Christianity. A triumph of imaginative science fiction, Perelandra-the second volume of Lewis’s “Space Trilogy”-is also theologically ambitious. Lewis considered his novel Perelandra (1943) among his best works.

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