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Selected Medieval and Religious Themes in the

Tytuł oryginału: Selected Medieval and Religious Themes in the

Autor: Andrzej Wicher

Wydawca: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe

Rok wydania: 2015

ISBN: 9788360655719

Stron: 320

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Preface(fragment)It is perhaps trivial to say that the personalities and works of J. R. R. Tol kienand C. S. Lewis evoke rather extreme feelings in audiences. Sometimesthese emotions are those of deep admiration and fascination, andsometimes, though much less often, those of disgust or even contempt.1 Itis, however, easy to see that sometimes they hardly incite any feelings at allbecause it certainly is not true that one must feel strongly about these twofamous and popular, but hardly canonical English writers, who happenedto be friends and to have shared much of their life experiences together.As writers, they both can be described as providers of niche products,interesting for fantasy literature buffs and, particularly in the case ofC. S. Lewis, for Christians, particularly committed Christians. The latteronce were a majority of the Western consumers of culture, but, already inthe days of Tolkien and Lewis, they became, at least in Britain and in manyother places in the West, something of an embattled minority. At that time,the majority of the population consisted of people with hardly any religion,or of lukewarm Christians. If we try to ask ourselves why Tolkien andLewis are, occasionally, so much disliked and shunned, we might end upwith some rather obvious answers. They certainly are seen as profoundlyold-fashioned, or even reactionary, since they hardly belong to the epoch ofthe 20th century Modernism (or Post-Modernism) with which they seem tobe associated purely by a chronological coincidence. Indeed both yearnedfor rather distant epochs, and heartily disliked the modern i????ndustrial andtechnological civilisation. On the other hand, it is also possible that sometimes both Tolkien and Lewisexaggerated the extent of their own conservatism, while being aware thatthis manoeuvre may have cost them a lot in terms of popular support. Inone of his most famous texts, the lecture called De Descriptione Temporum,Lewis talks about how great an experience it would have been for apaleontologist to meet a live dinosaur, or for a student of Classical Greekdrama to meet a live Athenian from the times of Sophocles. The point isthat he defi nes himself as an old Western man, that is a specimen of thecultural formation that disappeared, according to him, around the year 1820,with the onset of the age dominated by science and machinery. He mentionsJane Austen and Sir Walter Scott as some of the last representatives of thisOld Western culture:Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you somewhat as that Athenian mightstand. I read as a native texts that you must read as foreigners. You see whyI said that the claim was not really arrogant; who can be proud of speakingfl uently his mother tongue or knowing his way about his fathers house? It ismy settled conviction that in order to read Old Western literature aright youmust suspend most of the responses and unlearn most of the habits you haveacquired in reading modem literature. And because this is the judgement of anative, I claim that, even if the defence of my conviction is weak, the fact ofmy conviction is a historical datum to which you should give full weight. Thatway, where I fail as a critic, I may yet be useful as a specimen. I would evendare to go further. Speaking not only for myself but for all other Old Westernmen whom you may meet, I would say, use your specimens while you can.There are not going to be many more dinosaurs.2Thus, Lewis consciously represented himself as old-fashioned in quite aliteral sense of the word, that is as somebody whose mind was fashioneda long time ago, or rather fashioned by cultural products of what he callsOld Western age. Naturally, we have the right to treat this dinosaur rhetoricwith a pinch of salt, because there may be in it an admixture of the naturaldesire of a middle-aged professor to appear more interesting in the eyesof the students, or even in his own eyes, but, on the other hand, there islittle doubt that C. S. Lewis was steeped in old literary texts in quite anamazing degree. He was not, at the same time, what one might call anatural dinosaur because his love of old literature can more rightly becalled an acquired taste rather than a continuation of a family tradition.

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