Re-embroidering the robe : faith, myth and literary creation since 1850 /: faith, myth and literary creation since 1850. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Reembroidering the robe; Faith, myth and literary creation since 1850
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Suzanne Bray, Adrienne E. Gavin and Peter Merchant.
• Other Names: Bray, S (Suzanne); Gavin, Adrienne E, 1962-; Merchant, Peter
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 278 pages)
• Subjects: 820.937; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; Faith in literature; Mythology in literature; Myth in literature; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary; Faith in literature; Myth in literature; Mythology in literature; C 1900; Religion & beliefs; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1847186084; 9781847186089; 9781443814942; 1443814946
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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