C.s. Lewis Final Exam

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Boxen

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realm of talking animals and India's steamships and railways, collaboration of Warnie & Jack's

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apologetics

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defense of Christian beliefs and faith

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Coal-biters club

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formed and run by Tolkien, weekly club focused on Icelandic myths and tales, Lewis joined late in the game, many of the future Inklings were part of it

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Owen Barfield

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one of the founding members of the Inklings, "first and last of the Inklings"--died in 1997, Second Friend in Surprised by Joy--the friend who contradicts you on everything

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Hugo Dyson

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member of Inklings and Coal-biters, he and Tolkien influenced Lewis's conversation to Christianity at Magdalen college, "Oh, f**k, not another elf!", fun-loving, Warnie liked him best of all

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f***ing system

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traditional required practice in British boarding schools of younger pupils acting as personal servants to senior students, sometimes brought about corporal punishment

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The Great Knock

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William T. Kirkpatrick, Lewis's private tutor, very logical man, instilled a love in Lewis for Greek lit & mythology, prepared him for debates

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Eagle & Child

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the pub in which the Inklings met in, specifically the Rabbit Room

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Balder the Beautiful

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from Tegnner's Drapa (translation by Longfellow), his third glimpse of joy (first was the tin garden, second Squirrel Nutkin by Beatrice Potter): I heard a voice that cried
Balder the beautiful
Is dead, is dead---

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Arthur Greeves

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met in 1914 as adolescents, both loved fairy and Norse tales, lived across the street from each other, oldest and best friend after Warnie

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David & Douglas Gresham

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Joy Davidman's sons,

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Humphrey Havard

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actual name is Robert Havard, member of the Inklings, Doctor to Lewis & Joy, referenced in Perelandra, "U.Q."

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Walter Hooper

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served briefly as Lewis's private secretary, after Lewis's death devoted himself to Lewis's memory, trustee and literary advisor of the C.S. Lewis estate

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Inklings

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a literary and writing group composed of

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Charles William

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British novelist, wrote contemporary fantasy with supernatural, Inkling, inspired Lewis to write That Hideous Strength

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Tao

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the way, central cross-cultural beliefs, general beneficence, basis for all value judgments, universally accepted values (ex. Lewis would argue there is an objective beauty, good, evil)

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Magdalen College

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Lewis elected as a fellow and tutored tin Literature at Magdalen College, Oxford, for 29 years

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Janie Moore

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"Minto"/Mother, Paddy Moore's mom, sexual relationship with Lewis

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E. Nesbit

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"first modern writer for children," credited with having invented the children's adventure story, influenced Lewis's ideas of Narnia--modern kids with magical objects and visiting fantastical worlds, one of Jack's favorite authors

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Seven medieval planets

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Jupiter--Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe;
Mars--Prince Caspian;
Sol--Voyage of the DT;
Luna--Silver Chair;
Mercury--Horse & His Boy
Venus--The Magician's Nephew
Saturn--Last Battle

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Beatrix Potter

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Squirrel Nutkin, Lewis's second experience of joy

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Dorothy Sayers

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writer of detective fiction,

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The Allegory of Love

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Lewis's first scholarly book, literary criticism of medieval courtly love, argued that courtly love was marked by Humility, Courtesy, Adultery, and the Religion of Love

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The Abolition of Man

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defense of natural law and objective value (tao), fights against "debunking" (disregarding) the set values shared across cultures

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Socratic Club

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started at Oxford, asked Lewis to be the president, created to address the intellectual difficulties pertaining to religion, specifically Christianity

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The Discarded Image

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literary criticism of Medieval and Renaissance Lit, the universe as it was understood then and what still remains now

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The Four Loves

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two basic categories: need-love (child needs its mother's love) and gift-love (God's love to us. 4 loves: "storge" affection (natural, emotive love), "philia" friendship (love resulting from commonality), romantic (longs for emotional intimacy), and unconditional/charity (non-circumstantial)

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The Horse & His Boy

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:)

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A Grief Observed

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what followed after Joy's death

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Out of the Silent Planet

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First book in his science fiction series

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The Pilgrim's Regress

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allegorical fiction, one man's journey through the philosophical landscape to Christianity

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That Hideous Strength

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so much

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G.K. Chesterton

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Christian apologeticist, Lewis cites Chesteron's The Everlasting Man as influential in his conversion

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The Golden Key

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two children go on different journeys, one a boy chasing the golden key at the end of the rainbow and the other a merchant's daughter who flees into the forest after the fairies enchant her furniture. She, Tangle, gets trapped by a tree and then is freed. She teams up with Mossy, the young man who chased the rainbow, to search for the keyhole. They search for the land in which shadows fall. They get separated and then Tangle must throw herself down. The book ends with Tangle and Mossy climbing stairs to the land where shadows fall.

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BBC

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Lewis gave a series of talks explaining Christianity over the radio--lectures became Mere Christianity