Donald T. Williams
Autore di Mere Humanity: G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien on the Human Condition
Sull'Autore
Donald T. Williams is director of the School of Arts & Sciences at Toccoa Falls College in Georgia
Opere di Donald T. Williams
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1951-01-10
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 10
- Utenti
- 253
- Popolarità
- #90,475
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 17
My experience reading this book was that it was difficult, over my head at times - especially if I hadn't read the work being analyzed - and yet, very simple and repetitive at the same time. I was very frustrated with the format, because as literary analysis taking each piece of work as a separate chapter, it was very hard for me to came up with a cohesive idea of "the human condition" as understood by these writers. He inserts his own villanelles between each chapter, and includes not one but two appendices, one of which is basically a rant against postmodernism taken to the extreme of no truth or meaning in anything. The best chapters, I thought, dealt with the texts I was most familiar with and compared humans and talking beasts, and humans to elves and hobbits. I thought I'd be able to follow the chapter dealing with the Space Trilogy, but he spent so much time plot summarizing (each book has its own section in the chapter) and quoting at length that in the end my head spun. And he had a habit of carrying wording from past chapters - Tao from "The Abolition of Man" and hnau from the Space Trilogy - in a way that was more distracting than helpful in knowing what he was talking about. I persisted because of how much I like Lewis and Tolkien, but it's not a title I'll be recommending to more than the most rabid fans.… (altro)