| Description |
ix, 278 p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Faith in literature.
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Mythology in literature.
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Myth in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Bray, S. (Suzanne)
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Gavin, Adrienne E., 1962-
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Merchant, Peter.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| Added Title |
Reembroidering the robe |
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Faith, myth and literary creation since 1850 |
| ISBN |
1847186084 |
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9781847186089 |
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9781443814942 (electronic bk.) |
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