Knowledge Commons | The Inklings | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/the-inklings/ Activity feed for the group, The Inklings. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:10:57 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 0faecd63e3c5aae61aae30f20c08e818 Dennis Wise deposited A Schema for Artorius : History, John Heath-Stubbs, and the Last Modernist Epic in the group The Inklings https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899811/ Thu, 26 Sep 2024 03:00:58 -0400 Although John Heath-Stubbs’s long modernist epic Artorius is largely unknown, this ambitious text combines a cyclical vision of history with a linear one on its way to understanding Great Britain’s loss of imperial status. If this point has generally been missed, the complexity of Heath-Stubbs’s multiple symbolic superstructures partly accou…[Read more]

]]> 0 3f7e89adc2a24f39618dbfc047eeea0f Dennis Wise deposited A Tale of Two Essays: The Inklings on the Alliterative Meter in the group The Inklings https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869220/ Wed, 27 Dec 2023 03:00:58 -0500 This essay explains the background for two famous essays on the alliterative meter by the Inklings, "The Alliterative Metre" (C.S. Lewis) and "On Translating Beowulf" (J.R.R. Tolkien). The latter essay, I argue, owes its final published form to a sense of academic urgency that Lewis's own publication had unwittingly instilled in his friend Tolkien.

]]> 0 f5c9c91649d17bef54a9311798078a8d Dennis Wise deposited Delving into Gnome Man’s Land: Two Traditions in Baum and Tolkien in the group The Inklings https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868294/ Sun, 17 Dec 2023 03:00:26 -0500 Details the usages of "gnomes" in L. Frank Baum and J.R.R. Tolkien

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