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1 online resource (128 pages) |
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| Summary |
While visiting with Mr. Tumnus in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , Lucy Pevensie notices a bookshelf filled with such titles as Nymphs and Their Ways and Is Man a Myth? Be- ginning with these imaginary texts, Charlie W. Starr offers a comprehensive study of C. S. Lewis's theory of myth, including his views on Greek and Norse mythology, the origins of myth, and the implications of myth on thought, art, gender, theology, and literary and linguistic theory. For Lewis, myth represents an ancient mode of thought focused in the imaginationa mode that became the key that ultimately brought Lewis to his belief in Jesus Christ as the myth become fact. Beginning with a f The Faun's Bookshelf goes on to discuss the many books Lewis imagined throughout his writingsbooks whose titles he made up but never wrote. It also presents the sylvan myths central to the first two book titles in Mr. Tumnus's library, including explorations of the relation- ship between myth and reality, the spiritual significance of natural conservation, and the spiritual and incarnational qualities of gender. Starr then turns to the definition of myth, the literary qualities of myth, the mythic nature inherent in divine glory, humanity's destiny to embrace (or reject) that glory, and a deeper exploration of the epistemological ramifications of myth in relation to meaning, imagination, reason, and truth. |
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Print version record. |
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Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature.
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Literature and myth.
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Starr, Charlie W., 1963- Faun's bookshelf. Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, 2018. 9781606353493 (pbk. : alk. paper) (DLC)2018007993 |
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9781631013300 |
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9781631013300 (pdf) |
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