Studies in Words

Language—in its communicative and playful functions, its literary formations and its shifting meanings—is a perennially fascinating topic. C. S. Lewis's Studies in Words explores this fascination by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations using examples from a vast range of English literature, recovering lost meanings and analyzing their functions. It doubles as an absorbing and entertaining study of verbal communication, its pleasures and problems. The issues revealed are essential to all who read and communicate thoughtfully, and are handled here by a masterful exponent and analyst of the English language.

Contents:

Preface

1. INTRODUCTION
2. NATURE (with Phusis, Kind, Physical etc.)
3. SAD (with Gravis)
4. WIT (with Ingenium)
5. FREE (with  Eleutherios, Liberal, Frank etc.)
6. SENSE (with Sentence, Sensibility and Sensible)
7. SIMPLE
8. CONSCIENCE AND CONSCIOUS
9. WORLD
10. LIFE
11. I DARE SAY
12. AT THE FRINGE OF LANGUAGE

Index