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Steven A. Beebe, C. S. Lewis and the Craft of Communication

Steven A. Beebe, C. S. Lewis and the Craft of Communication Book Reviews Steven A. Beebe, C. S. Lewis and the Craft of Communication. New York: Peter Lang, 2020. 303 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4331-7233-5. C. S. Lewis and the Craft of Communication is not a textbook, despite its author’s claim to fame for having written almost a dozen textbooks. Neither is it an analysis of Lewis’s work through the lens of modern communication theory, despite its author’s distinguished career as a communications professor and president of the National Communication Association. Nor is it commentary on and analysis of ‘Language and Human Nature’, despite its author’s having discovered the lost manuscript of this unfinished publishing collaboration between Lewis and Tolkien. Instead, Steven Beebe’s first book-length contribution to Lewis studies is a winsomely written examination of Lewis’s communication theory that draws upon an impressive range of mostly primary sources to make the case that Lewis’s enduring success is largely attributable to his knowledge and application of sound communication principles. The book centres on five principles of effective communication: effective communication is holistic, intentional, transpositional, evocative, and audience centred (HI TEA). Holistic is used to cover Lewis’s emphasis on writing ‘to please the ear as well as the eye’ (20), his integration of reason http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Inklings Studies Edinburgh University Press

Steven A. Beebe, C. S. Lewis and the Craft of Communication

Peterson, Josiah
Journal of Inklings Studies , Volume 11 (1): 4 – Apr 1, 2021
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Book Reviews Steven A. Beebe, C. S. Lewis and the Craft of Communication. New York: Peter Lang, 2020. 303 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4331-7233-5. C. S. Lewis and the Craft of Communication is not a textbook, despite its author’s claim to fame for having written almost a dozen textbooks. Neither is it an analysis of Lewis’s work through the lens of modern communication theory, despite its author’s distinguished career as a communications professor and president of the National Communication Association. Nor is it commentary on and analysis of ‘Language and Human Nature’, despite its author’s having discovered the lost manuscript of this unfinished publishing collaboration between Lewis and Tolkien. Instead, Steven Beebe’s first book-length contribution to Lewis studies is a winsomely written examination of Lewis’s communication theory that draws upon an impressive range of mostly primary sources to make the case that Lewis’s enduring success is largely attributable to his knowledge and application of sound communication principles. The book centres on five principles of effective communication: effective communication is holistic, intentional, transpositional, evocative, and audience centred (HI TEA). Holistic is used to cover Lewis’s emphasis on writing ‘to please the ear as well as the eye’ (20), his integration of reason

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Published: Apr 1, 2021

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