Re-embroidering the robe faith, myth and literary creation since 1850 /
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Bray, S. Gavin, Adrienne E., 1962- Merchant, Peter. |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008 |
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| Online Access: | Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete. |
Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Myth and faith in fictions of childhood and adolescence: Introduction / Adrienne E. Gavin
- The wizard of Oz: myth for an age of progress / J. Jackson Barlow
- Nordic mythology in C.S. Lewis's The chronicles of Narnia / Daniel Warzecha
- Creating national mythology and its reflections in contemporary children's literature / Mari Niitra
- The clew of her story: female myth-making in Margaret Mahy's The tricksters / Adrienne E. Gavin
- Of maidens and dragons: Sara Maitland's Three times table / Deborah Sarbin
- pt. 2. Myth and the Christian author: Introduction / Suzanne Bray
- J.R.R. Tolkien's "Eucatastrophe," or fantasy as a modern recovery of faith / Joanny Moulin
- Mediaeval myth and modern narrative: Dante's myth of heaven and hell and Charles Williams' Descent into hell / Robert-Louis Abrahamson
- Jesting in earnest: levity and faith in George MacDonald's The light princess / Daniel Gabelman
- Myth, fact and "literary belief": imagination and post-empiricism in C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien / Rod Rosenquist
- Temptations for the times in the mythical rewritings of British Christian authors 1933 to 1945 / Suzanne Bray
- Incarnation as meta-narrative in Flannery O'Connor's short stories / Isabelle Boof-Vermesse
- pt. 3. Mythology revisited: Introduction / Peter Merchant
- The goddess and the underworld in modernism: Marguerite Yourcenar's Feux / Evans Lansing Smith
- Making it new: changing form and function in modern myth / Bradford Haas
- "In the goddess's name": symbolist and modernist revisions of the Aphrodite myth / Nora Clark
- The cult of Dionysus in the work of W.B. Yeats / Elizabeth Muller
- "Breathed on by the rural Pan": the atmosphere of Arcadia in Giono's Regain / Peter Merchant
- God's death and subsequent resurrection from Faust to Apocalypto / Jacques Coulardeau
- Unity among the stars: faith and reason in Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos: Archives / David Waterman.