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Re-embroidering the robe : faith, myth and literary creation since 1850
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Re-embroidering the robe : faith, myth and literary creation since 1850

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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.

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