Peter Schakel -- Publications

Editor, The Longing for a Form: Essays on the Fiction of C. S. Lewis. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1977. Paperback edition, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1979.

The Poetry of Jonathan Swift: Allusion and the Development of a Poetic Style. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978.

Reading with the Heart: The Way into [C. S. Lewis's] Narnia. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1979.

Reason and Imagination in C. S. Lewis: A Study of "Till We Have Faces." Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1984.

Editor, with Charles A. Huttar, Word and Story in C. S. Lewis. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1991.

Editor, Critical Approaches to Teaching Swift. New York: AMS Press, 1992.

Editor, with Charles A. Huttar, The Rhetoric of Vision: Essays on Charles Williams (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1996).

With Jack Ridl, Approaching Poetry: Perspectives and Responses (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997).

Editor, with Howard D. Weinbrot and Stephen Karian, Eighteenth-Century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Phillip Harth. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001.

Imagination and the Arts in C. S. Lewis. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002.

With Jack Ridl. 250 Poems: A Portable Anthology. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003.

With Beverly Lawn, Jack Ridl, and Janet E. Gardner. Literature: A Portable Anthology. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004.

With Jack Ridl. Approaching Literature in the 21st Century: Fiction, Poetry, Drama. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2005.

The Way into Narnia: A Reader’s Guide. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005.

"Swift's Remedy for Love: The `Scatological' Poems," in Contemporary Studies of Swift's Poetry, ed. John I. Fischer and Donald Mell. Newark: The University of Delaware Press, 1980. Pp. 136-48. (Reprinted from Papers on Language and Literature, 14 (Spring 1978), 137-47).

"Swift's Poetry Revisited: The Achievements of a Decade of Criticism," in Proceedings of the First Minster Symposium on Jonathan Swift, ed. Hermann J. Real and Heinz J. Vienken (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1985), pp. 233-46.

"Big Men and Little Men, Houyhnhnms and Yahoos: Structural Parallels and Meaning in Gulliver's Travels," in Approaches to Teaching Swift's "Gulliver's Travels," ed. Edward J. Rielly (New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1988), pp. 30-36.

"Teaching Absalom and Achitophel," in Teaching Eighteenth-Century Poetry, ed. Christopher Fox (New York: AMS Press, 1990), pp. 209-221.

"Swift," in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 101: British Prose Writers, 1660-1800, first series, ed. Donald T. Siebert (Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1991), pp. 319-51.

"Elusive Birds and Narrative Nets: The Appeal of Story in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia," in A Christian for All Christians: Essays in Honour of C. S. Lewis, ed. Andrew Walker and James Patrick (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1990), pp. 116-31.

"Horace in Modern Dress: Teaching Pope's Horatian Imitations," in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Alexander Pope, ed. Wallace Jackson and Paul Yoder (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993), pp. 169-76.

"`Friends Side by Side': Theme, Structure, and Influence in the Swift-Pope Miscellanies of 1727," in Reading Swift: Papers from The Second Minster Symposium on Jonathan Swift, ed. Richard H. Rodino and Hermann J. Real (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1993), pp. 103-12.

"C. S. Lewis," in Encyclopedia of British Humorists, ed. Stephen H. Gale (New York: Garland, 1996) 2.661-70.

"What Success it Met: The Reception of Cadenus and Vanessa," in The Third Minster Symposium Papers, ed. Hermann J. Real (forthcoming: Munich: Wilhelm Fink).

Entries on “Cupid and Psyche,” “Friendship,” “Jonathan Swift,” “Letters to Malcolm,” “’On Science Fiction,’” “Reason,” “Satire,” “’Sometimes Fairy Stories,’” and “Till We Have Faces,” in The C. S. Lewis Readers’ Encyclopedia, ed. Jeffrey D. Schultz and John G. West, Jr. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1998).

“What Success it Met: The Reception of Cadenus and Vanessa, in Reading Swift: Papers from The Third Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift, ed. Hermann J. Real and Helgard Stöver-Leidig (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1998), pp. 215-24.

“Restoration and Eighteenth Century,” in Reading the Classics with C. S. Lewis, ed. Thomas L. Martin (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2000), pp. 187-202.

“Swift’s Voices: Innovation and Complication in the Poems Written at Market Hill,” in Eighteenth-Century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Phillip Harth, ed. Howard D. Weinbrot, Peter J. Schakel, and Stephen Karian (Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2001), pp. 114-32.

“Swift’s Voices: Innovation and Complication in the Poems Written at Market Hill,” in Reading Swift: Papers from the Fourth Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift, ed. Hermann J. Real and Helgard Stöver-Leidig (Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2003), pp. 311-25.

“The Oxford Fantasists: J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis,” in A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000, ed. Brian W. Shaffer (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), pp. 354-66.

"Plato's Phaedrus and Rhetoric," The Southern Speech Journal, 32 (Winter 1966), 124-32.

"Swift's `Verses Wrote in a Lady's Ivory Table-Book,'" The Explicator, 28 (May 1970), Item 83.

"Virgil and the Dean: Christian and Classical Allusion in The Legion Club," Studies in Philology, 70 (October 1973), 427-38.

"The Politics of Opposition in `Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift,'" Modern Language Quarterly, 35 (September 1974), 246-56.

"Swift's `dapper Clerk' and the Matrix of Allusions in Cadenus and Vanessa," Criticism, 17 (Summer 1975), 246-61.

"`The Character of Sir Robert Walpole': A Previously Unnoticed Publication," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 70 (First Quarter 1976), 111-14.

A response to Thomas B. Gilmore, Jr., "The Comedy of Swift's Scatological Poems," PMLA, 91 (May 1976), 465-66.

"More Than Fairy Tales," The Church Herald, 5 August 1977, reprinted as "The Lion, Witch, and Young Readers" in The Christian Reader, 16 (March-April 1978), 74-80.

"Studies of Swift's Poetry, 1970-1980: A Survey," Newsletter of the Johnson Society of the Central Region, March 1980.

"Frost's `Out, Out,'" 11 (1994), 25-29. The Explicator,40, no. 4 (Summer 1982), 47-48.

"Seeing and Knowing: The Epistemology of C. S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces," SEVEN: An Anglo-American Literary Review, 4 (1983), 84-97.

"A Retelling within a Myth Retold: The Priest of Essur and Lewisian Mythopoetics," Mythlore, 9, no. 4 (Winter 1983), 10-12.

"Dryden's Discourse and Bi-partite Form in the Design of Formal Verse Satire," English Language Notes, 21 (June 1984), 33-41.

"Looks like we made it? . . ." [on Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four], News from Hope College, December 1984, p. 6.

"Dance as Metaphor and Myth in Lewis, Tolkien, and Williams," Mythlore, 12, no. 3 (Spring 1986), 4-8, 23.

"That `Hideous Strength' in Lewis and Orwell: A Comparison and Contrast," Mythlore, 13, no. 4 (Summer 1987), 36-40.

"The Satiric Imagination of C. S. Lewis," Studies in the Literary Imagination, 22 (Fall 1989), 129-48.

"`Sauce for Flat Meat': The Epigrammatic Context of Swift's Verse," Swift Studies, 4 (1989), 79-86.

"The Importance of Shadows in Shadowlands," SEVEN: An Anglo-American Literary Review, 11 (1994), 25-29.

“Death and Dying in the Writings of C. S. Lewis,” The Canadian C. S. Lewis Journal, no. 94 (Autumn 1998), 38-50.

“The ‘Correct’ Order for Reading the Chronicles of Narnia?” Mythlore, 23.2 (Spring 2001), 4-14.

“‘Let the Pictures Tell Their Own Moral’: C. S. Lewis and Moral Imagination,” The Canadian C. S. Lewis Journal, no. 100 (Autumn 2001), 25-36.

“Irrigating Deserts with Moral Imagination,” Inklings of Glory. Christian Reflection: A Series in Faith and Ethics. Waco, Texas: Baylor University, 2004. 21-29.