Annotated Bibliography
Our class project is the development of an annotated bibliography of the works of C. S. Lewis. Each of you will write two entries, based on the book reviews you do earlier in the semester.
In brief, each annotated bibliography entry shall:
Below I provide an example:
The Pilgrim's Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason
and Romanticism. London: J. M. Dent, 1933.
This is Lewis' first published work after his conversion to Christianity. Written as an allegory and inspired by Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, this book is Lewis' attack on the spiritual malaise of Western culture as he saw it in the late 1920's and early 1930's. John (will or desire), tries to find the Island (joy or heaven), in various experiences, ideologies, philosophies, and movements; though hindered many times in his pilgrimage, he is eventually assisted by Vertue (conscience or morality). After a very difficult experience, John converts first to theism and then to Christianity. Especially helpful to him are the characters Reason and Mother Kirk. In John, Lewis illustrates his own finding of God through the search for joy. Elsewhere expressed as "the argument from desire," this theme appears often in Lewis' later writings. In addition, Lewis publishes sixteen poems that are integrated into this prose allegory. As a group they are among his best and focus in one way or another upon his spiritual journey and movement toward faith in Christ. D. W. King
After all the entries are received and reviewed, I will published online a complete copy.