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35 Cards in this Set
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Who was born in Belfast, Ireland? |
C.S. Lewis |
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Who's C.S. Lewis's father? |
Albert James Lewis |
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Who was C.S. Lewis's mother? |
Flora Augusta Hamiliton |
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Mom died at nine |
C.S. Lewis |
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Good friends with his brother Warren |
C.S. Lewis |
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Sent to boarding school after mother died? |
C.S. Lewis |
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Who's influential tutor for C.S. Lewis was W.T Kirkpatrick? |
C.S. Lewis |
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Who was injured in WWI? |
C.S. Lewis |
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Who took care of Mrs. Moore at the Kilns? |
C.S. Lewis |
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Who taught philosophy and English literature at Oxford, 1925 to 1954? |
C.S. Lewis |
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Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge, 1954-1963 |
C.S. Lewis |
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Who was in Inkling? |
C.S. Lewis |
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What was a literature group and where he was witnessed too? |
The Inkling |
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Who was converted to Christianity in 1929? |
C.S. Lewis |
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Who married Joy Davidman in 1956? |
C.S. Lewis |
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What was C.S. Lewis's achievements? |
1) Literary criticism; 2) Poetry; 3) Apologetics 4) Fiction |
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What are the diverse genres of C. S. Lewis? |
Allegory, myth, science fiction, children's fantasy and essays and criticism |
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What are the prevailing theme in C.S. Lewis? |
Reality of God and His Divine Presence |
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What is C.S. Lewis's critical acclaim? |
Witty language, Anecdotes, simple metaphors and analogies, conversational tone, and made complex clear |
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What is the themes of Till We have Faces |
Identity, Obsessive vs. Sacrificial love, and Reason vs Faith |
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What are the symbols of Till We Have Faces? |
Orual's veil, Psyche's palace, pulling out the thorn |
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What are the techniques used in Till We Have Faces? |
First person reminiscent point of view Complaint--deposition Dreams and visions Pagan seting |
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What are the achievements of C.S. Lewis |
Shows a soul's progression to spiritual Truth, combines genres: novel, myth, argument Insists on a divine experience--overtly Christian |
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What time period was Joseph Conrad? |
The Edwardian Period |
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What was a time of transitions? |
Edwardian period |
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What was a rejection of Victorian values? |
Edwardian period |
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What was a rise of modernism: international movement; rejects traditional morality, culture, art; redefines Bible in light of evolution? |
Edwardian period |
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What is unaware of Christian truth? |
Secularism |
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What is violence, anger, futility of life? |
Realism/Social disillusionment |
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Difficult to understand |
Psychological workings of the mind |
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freedom, individuality, personality, no morality? |
intellectual liberalism |
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Social protest |
Modern period |
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Uncertainty like surrealism and existentialism |
The Modern period |
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Major authors for twentieth century for poetry? |
T.S. Eliot |
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Twentieth century major authors by prose? |
Conrad, Woolf, Joyce, Forster |
