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| Professor Alan Jacobs discusses his book The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis and what it means to say that Lewis (1898-1963) had a pre-modern consciousness. Jacobs says he explores the images and themes found in both the Narnia stories and Lewis's nonfiction works in the biography. He explains that Lewis's thought and imagination were integrated in a way foreign to the modern mindset, which relegates reason to the public sphere and imagination to the private with neither informing the other. In a disenchanted world, Lewis cultivated a willingness to be enchanted. He trained his imagination on the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, probing the images and feelings that thus arose for the thoughts and truths they embodied. |
The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis (HarperSanFrancisco, 2005) |
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On the bonus track for Volume 77, Alan Jacobs discusses The Narnian. Click here to listen to his comments. (Left click to stream; right click to save.)
 Alan Jacobs has contributed to multiple editions of the Journal; click here for his record.
Alan Jacobs has also been featured on the MARS HILL AUDIO Conversations "Decadent Immortals: Alan Jacobs on Anne Rice" and "The Public Poetry of W. H. Auden." Short descriptions of these Conversations are listed here. In addition, MARS HILL AUDIO has recorded Jacobs's A Visit to Vanity Fair: Moral Essays on the Present Age. A description of the book is available here. A chapter about C. S. Lewis from Jacobs's A Visit to Vanity Fair is published on the MARS HILL AUDIO Anthology, The Christian Mind of C. S. Lewis. For more information about it, click here. |
Lewis, Clive Staples
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