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A Theory of Spectral RhetoricCasket Case #1: Haunting the Reader: C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce and the Rhetorrectional Situation

A Theory of Spectral Rhetoric: Casket Case #1: Haunting the Reader: C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce... [In his essay entitled “Miracles,” C.S. Lewis states that he only knew one person who claimed to have seen a ghost. “It was a woman,” he says, “and the interesting thing is that she disbelieved in the immortality of the soul before seeing the ghost and still disbelieves after having seen it.” Despite his claim of not meeting any other persons who had ghostly encounters, there is reason to suggest that C.S. Lewis was haunted by ghosts. Writing on the resurrection in “What Are We to Make of Jesus Christ,” Lewis writes, “This is something quite distinct from ghost-survival. I don’t mean that they disbelieved in ghost survival. On the contrary, they believed in it so firmly that, on more than one occasion, Christ had to assure them that He was not a ghost.” While this is a possible allusion to Lewis’ belief in the general existence of ghosts, they become more personal/metaphorical elsewhere.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Theory of Spectral RhetoricCasket Case #1: Haunting the Reader: C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce and the Rhetorrectional Situation

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
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978-3-030-69678-8
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89 –107
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10.1007/978-3-030-69679-5_8
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[In his essay entitled “Miracles,” C.S. Lewis states that he only knew one person who claimed to have seen a ghost. “It was a woman,” he says, “and the interesting thing is that she disbelieved in the immortality of the soul before seeing the ghost and still disbelieves after having seen it.” Despite his claim of not meeting any other persons who had ghostly encounters, there is reason to suggest that C.S. Lewis was haunted by ghosts. Writing on the resurrection in “What Are We to Make of Jesus Christ,” Lewis writes, “This is something quite distinct from ghost-survival. I don’t mean that they disbelieved in ghost survival. On the contrary, they believed in it so firmly that, on more than one occasion, Christ had to assure them that He was not a ghost.” While this is a possible allusion to Lewis’ belief in the general existence of ghosts, they become more personal/metaphorical elsewhere.]

Published: Aug 24, 2021

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