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- Title: Truths Breathed Through Silver: The Inklings' Moral and Mythopoeic Legacy (Book Review)
- Author : Mythlore
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 179 KB
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TRUTHS BREATHED THROUGH SILVER: THE INKLINGS' MORAL AND MYTHOPOEIC LEGACY. Ed. Jonathan B. Himes, with Joe R. Christopher and Salwa Khoddam. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (1) 2008. xviii + 160 pp. Hardcover. $59. 99. ISBN (10) 1-84718-444-8; ISBN (13) 9781847184443. THE TITLE OF THIS COLLECTION DERIVES OF COURSE from C. S. Lewis's famous statement to J.R.R. Tolkien, during the conversation that led to Lewis's conversion, that myths were "lies breathed through silver" (2)--a charge which Tolkien ably rebutted by asserting that Christianity was both a myth (indeed, the myth) and true. Comprised of ten lectures or papers presented at John Brown University (3) and similar venues by contributors such as Joe R. Christopher, Tom Shippey, Roland Hein, David Oberhelman, and Jason Fisher, this book grew out of an annual event held under the auspices of the C. S. Lewis & Inklings Society (CSLIS). What had begun as a one-time, one-day symposium in Tulsa in 1998 has now become a yearly gathering of Inklings scholars in the Arkansas/ Oklahoma/Texas region. While its interests obviously overlap with those of the Mythopoeic Society, its focus is slightly more Lewis-centric than Tolkien-centric, and somewhat more religious than secular (as may be seen by the book's subtitle). Four of the pieces presented here deal primarily with Lewis, two with Tolkien, two with MacDonald, and the rest with multiple authors (MacDonald, Chesterton, Tolkien, Lewis, and Williams).