Posted by Dave Thewlis on September 29, 2010 at 05:41:10 user dthewlis.
In Reply to: Re: posted by Andy on September 29, 2010 at 05:18:52:
Elsewhere it's stated that Lewis coined the term in his posthumous Spencer's Images of Life. And there's this:
"In an October 2009 article for The Times of London, Tom Wright explained how Ward borrowed the term donegality from C.S. Lewis:
"Lewis the critic referred to the “atmosphere” of a story as the “kappa element,” taking the term from the initial Greek letter of krypton (hidden). Ward, developing this, picks up a further coinage. Speaking of the “taste” or “atmosphere” of a particular place, Lewis says that we go back “to Donegal [a favourite of his] for its Donegality and London for its Londonness.” Ward boldly gives the word “donegality” a new metonymic meaning: not now the flavour of Donegal itself, but the idea of a particular flavour, atmosphere or mood, imparted to or expressed through a story. Lewis, he suggests, was attempting something quite new, calling for new terminology..."