Download e-book for kindle: Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The Environmental Vision of by Matthew T. Dickerson,David O'Hara

The amazing breadth of C. S. Lewis's (1898--1963) paintings is sort of as mythical because the fantastical stories he so inventively crafted. numerous topics emerge in his literary output, which spans the genres of nonfiction, fable, technological know-how fiction, and kid's literature, yet a lot of the scholarship interpreting his paintings makes a speciality of faith or philosophy. Overshadowed are Lewis's perspectives on nature and his main issue for environmental stewardship, that are found in so much of his paintings. In Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The Environmental imaginative and prescient of C. S. Lewis, authors Matthew Dickerson and David O'Hara remove darkness from this crucial but ignored element of the author's visionary paintings. Dickerson and O'Hara transcend conventional theological discussions of Lewis's writing to enquire issues of sustainability, stewardship of traditional assets, and humanity's dating to desolate tract. The authors research the environmental and ecological underpinnings of Lewis's paintings by way of exploring his best-known works of delusion, together with the seven books of the Chronicles of Narnia and the 3 novels jointly often called the distance Trilogy. Taken jointly, those works display Lewis's enduring environmental issues, and Dickerson and O'Hara supply a brand new knowing of his pioneering variety of fiction. An avid outdoorsman, Lewis deftly mixed an lively mind's eye with a deep appreciation for the wildlife. Narnia and the Fields of Arbol, the 1st book-length paintings at the topic, explores the wedding of Lewis's environmental ardour along with his ability as a novelist and unearths the author's legacy to have as a lot in universal with the agrarian environmentalism of Wendell Berry because it does with the delusion of J. R. R. Tolkien. In an period of accelerating difficulty approximately deforestation, weather switch, and different environmental concerns, Lewis's paintings continues to be as pertinent as ever. The common adaption of his paintings in movie lends credence to the author's endurance as an influential voice in either fantastical fiction and environmental literature. With Narnia and the Fields of Arbol, Dickerson and O'Hara have written a well timed paintings of scholarship that gives a clean standpoint on some of the most celebrated authors in literary history.