03425nam a2200385 a 4500 ebr10655224 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 081120s2008 enk sb 001 0 eng d 2008472386 1847186084 9781847186089 9781443814942 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)667050847 PN3351 .R34 2008eb Re-embroidering the robe [electronic resource] : faith, myth and literary creation since 1850 / edited by Suzanne Bray, Adrienne E. Gavin and Peter Merchant. Reembroidering the robe Faith, myth and literary creation since 1850 Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008. ix, 278 p. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Faith in literature. Mythology in literature. Myth in literature. Electronic books. local Bray, S. (Suzanne) Gavin, Adrienne E., 1962- Merchant, Peter. ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10655224 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 76918 76918