Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association. Vol. XXVII. [Containing: Psycho-Analysis and Literary Criticism].

SMITH, Nowell Charles. [C.S. Lewis]..

$600.00

Item Number: 137065

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1942.

First edition of Vol. XXVII of Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association; containing C.S. Lewis’ essay Psycho-Analysis and Literary Criticism. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare in the original dust jacket.

The imaginative experience of Joy, as he called it, was central to the career of C. S. Lewis: it informed his work as literary scholar, writer, and religious thinker. Cognizant that psychoanalytic concepts held implications for the meaning of this experience, Lewis here offers a critical commentary on these implications with regard to literary imagery, suggesting possible conflicts between a view of humankind that is psychoanalytically-derived and one which is aesthetically informed.