This is a wonderful contribution. Thank you! Linnea up above made similar points about how fandom interaction and fiction help keep static things alive and culturally relevant as well. Have you read the Grossman article in Time yet about fanfiction? It's terrific and goes to the idea, actually on display here, of fan fiction as community building. I so appreciate you bringing in the ideas of both textualist interpretation and reader response theory. In my own profession, I look a consumer surveys and focus group studies and that data certainly demonstrates that readers pull wildly different things from text. It is fiendishly difficult to convey a single meaning to different readers when they all come at the text from such different places.

I don't tend to look overmuch at current scholarship on Lewis, but I find it very interesting and reassuring that the debate of his meanings continues. As Elouise says, his work is so complex and layered, it's difficult to pull any single thing from it.