Re-embroidering the robe
Subtitle: faith, myth and literary creation since 1850
By: edited by Suzanne Bray, Adrienne E. Gavin and Peter Merchant.
Contributors: Bray, S.; Gavin, Adrienne E., 1962-; Merchant, Peter.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Newcastle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781847186089
Subjects: Faith in literature; Mythology in literature; Myth in literature
Other titles: Reembroidering the robe; Faith, myth and literary creation since 1850
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Myth and faith in fictions of childhood and adolescence: Introduction / Adrienne E. Gavin; title: The wizard of Oz: myth for an age of progress / J. Jackson Barlow; title: Nordic mythology in C.S. Lewis's The chronicles of Narnia / Daniel Warzecha; title: Creating national mythology and its reflections in contemporary children's literature / Mari Niitra; title: The clew of her story: female myth-making in Margaret Mahy's The tricksters / Adrienne E. Gavin; title: Of maidens and dragons: Sara Maitland's Three times table / Deborah Sarbin; title: pt. 2. Myth and the Christian author: Introduction / Suzanne Bray; title: J.R.R. Tolkien's "Eucatastrophe," or fantasy as a modern recovery of faith / Joanny Moulin; title: Mediaeval myth and modern narrative: Dante's myth of heaven and hell and Charles Williams' Descent into hell / Robert-Louis Abrahamson; title: Jesting in earnest: levity and faith in George MacDonald's The light princess / Daniel Gabelman; title: Myth, fact and "literary belief": imagination and post-empiricism in C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien / Rod Rosenquist; title: Temptations for the times in the mythical rewritings of British Christian authors 1933 to 1945 / Suzanne Bray; title: Incarnation as meta-narrative in Flannery O'Connor's short stories / Isabelle Boof-Vermesse; title: pt. 3. Mythology revisited: Introduction / Peter Merchant; title: The goddess and the underworld in modernism: Marguerite Yourcenar's Feux / Evans Lansing Smith; title: Making it new: changing form and function in modern myth / Bradford Haas; title: "In the goddess's name": symbolist and modernist revisions of the Aphrodite myth / Nora Clark; title: The cult of Dionysus in the work of W.B. Yeats / Elizabeth Muller; title: "Breathed on by the rural Pan": the atmosphere of Arcadia in Giono's Regain / Peter Merchant; title: God's death and subsequent resurrection from Faust to Apocalypto / Jacques Coulardeau; title: Unity among the stars: faith and reason in Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos: Archives / David Waterman.