Study Of C. S. Lewis’s Literary Thought

C.S. Lewis is a famous British writer in the 20th century. He is a writer, poet, scholar, and literary historian of children’s literature and fantasy literature. He is also a literary critic. He is recognized as a Christian apologetics scientist. As a writer and critic full of the spirit of classicism, his literary reading, criticism and creation theories have their own unique perspectives. Lewis led the Christian thoughts into his literary thought, finally formed a distinct personality in his literary ideology. Lewis’s literary thoughts are mainly formed of three parts, like the literary reading theory, literary criticism theory and literary creation theory. Lewis advocated that when the readers read a book, they must read and accept the text with love. In the field of literary criticism, Lewis believed that critics should learn to listen to the text, be self-discipline, and explicit the role of criticism. In literary creation, Lewis proposed to follow the ultra personalized creation principles, use creative means full of romantic, and definite the creation theme of the text theme. Lewis’s literary thoughts still play a vitally important role in the field of literary and artistic theory of the world until now. They occupy an important position, and produce the influence of the development of literary theory. Post-modern theorists reference and develop the Lewis’s literary thoughts. His thoughts are more effective and will blossom the light of theory in today’s society.