OL71163W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 91.81 Pages 236 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:8476346867 Urn:lcp:perelandra00lewi:lcpdf:1f24599a-115b-4b64-a2a3-5e1dbbac7e9f Extramarc University of Alberta Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier perelandra00lewi Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2j687460 Isbn 0025708406ĩ780684833651 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition of several names and words in the Ransom trilogy which Lewis probably borrowed, loosely. Lewis scholars and devoted readers alike will find this volume indispensible to the understanding of this canonical work of speculative fiction.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:45:16 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA128206 Camera Canon 5D City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 4. Lewiss novel Perelandra (1943), like most of his books. PERELANDRA Having escaped from Mars, Dr Ransom is called to the paradise planet of Perelandra, or Venus. The collection is enhanced by Walter Hooper’s reminiscences of his conversations with Lewis about Perelandra and the possible provenance of the stories in Lewis’s imagination.Ĭ. Hilder, Sanford Schwartz, Michael Travers, and Michael Ward. This work brings together a world-class group of literary and theological scholars and Lewis specialists that includes Paul S.

Lewis translates for us the experiences of Ransom on Perelandra, showing us, through his very human lens, those concepts that we would struggle to accept. The first group of essays considers the cosmological implications of the world Lewis depicts in Perelandra while the second group examines the relationship between morality and meaning in Lewis’s created cosmology of the planet Perelandra. Lewis serves as our stand-in, showing the fear that we have when presented with new knowledge of the goings-on of the world.

Here, that estimable man is abducted by a megalomaniacal physicist and his accomplice and taken via spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra. Lewis’s Perelandra: Reshaping the Image of the Cosmos explores how the novel synthesizes the three traditions of cosmology, mythology, and Christianity. Lewiss acclaimed Space Trilogy, which continues with Perelandra and That Hideous Strength, Out of the Silent Planet begins the adventures of the remarkable Dr. A triumph of imaginative science fiction, Perelandra-the second volume of Lewis’s “Space Trilogy”-is also theologically ambitious. Lewis considered his novel Perelandra (1943) among his best works. Tolkien ('Elwin' means 'Elf friend' in Anglo-Saxon), though he seems to have autobiographical elements.

Tolkien, one of Lewiss inspirations for the character, was born in 1892. Lewis, set on the planet of Perelandra, or Venus. Description The first single-volume study of an important Lewis novelĬ. Lewis might have conceived of Ransom as being his own age, i.e., born in 1898 J.R.R. Perelandra (also titled Voyage to Venus in a later edition published by Pan Books) is the second book in the Space Trilogy of C.

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