The Discarded Image
An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
On Sale: 11/05/2013
The Discarded Image
An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
On Sale: 11/05/2013
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About the Book
In The Discarded Image, C.S. Lewis paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It describes the "image" discarded by later years as "the medieval synthesis itself, the whole organization of their theology, science and history into a single, complex, harmonious mental model of the universe." This, Lewis’s last book, has been hailed as "the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind."
Critical Praise
“Erudite and graceful, filled with anecdote and analogy, illuminating the images of the past.” — Los Angeles Times
“It does you good to read [Lewis’s] learned books, not because you are preached at, but because to read them is for the mind what a walk over fine, sometimes rough, country, in good weather is for the healthy body.” — Birmingham Post
“Nobody else could have imposed such form on such a mass of matter, and written a book so wide in scope. Whether we were his pupils in the classroom or no, we are all his pupil and we shall not look upon his like again.” — The Listener
“If not magnum opus, it represents Lewis the expositor at his best, and communicates the zest that he brought to the study of literature, philosophy and religion alike.” — London Times Literary Supplement
“If the book sometimes daunts, it nearly always entrances, and, though it describes a model which has passed away into a mist, it testifies, in its reverence, for those who made it, to the greatness of the human mind.” — The Church Times
“The printed page transmits only part of the zest with which Lewis in his lectures demonstrated this double process, but it is invaluable to have the most famous set from the university courses preserved for posterity.” — New Statesman
“We thought to have no more from that gifted pen: it seemed as though the fruit of that reading had passed beyond our reach…The Discarded Image…is worth having, if only for the experience of having so genial an interpreter to guide through the realms of gold.” — The Ampleforth Journal
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Product Details
- ISBN: 9780062313706
- ISBN 10: 0062313703
- Imprint: HarperOne
- On Sale: 11/05/2013
- List Price:10.99 CAD
- BISAC1 : RELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts
- BISAC2 : PHILOSOPHY / Essays
- BISAC3 : LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference
- BISAC4 : LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
- BISAC5 : LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General
- BISAC6 : HISTORY / World
- BISAC7 : RELIGION / Faith
- BISAC8 : ART / History / General
- BISAC9 : HISTORY / Medieval
- BISAC10 : LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval