Re-Embroidering the Robe
Faith, Myth and Literary Creation since 1850
1st Edition
Published on 2. October 2009
288 pages
978-1-4438-1494-2 (ISBN)
Description
Religious faith, myths and legends have always been present in literature. However, their role has changed over time. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, with the diminishing role of religion in European society, writers with some kind of belief system, whether religious or political, have tended to use myth in two different ways.They have either retold the old, familiar myths of the past so that they carry fresh messages relevant to a contemporary audience or created their own, new myths as modern vehicles of traditional truths. Many writers have combined the two techniques.Such is the transforming artistry which the eighteen essays in Re-Embroidering the Robe examine: the remaking or new-minting of myth, in literature from 1850 to the present day, so that what it embodies and expresses speaks powerfully to the modern reader. In widely differing ways, therefore, all of the texts analysed here compel attention.
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Faith, Myth and Literary Creation since 1850
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Content
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- PART I
- THE WIZARD OF OZ
- NORDIC MYTHOLOGY IN C. S. LEWIS'S THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA
- CREATING NATIONAL MYTHOLOGY AND ITS REFLECTIONS IN CONTEMPORARY CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
- THE CLEW OF HER STORY
- OF MAIDENS AND DRAGONS
- PART II
- J. R. R. TOLKIEN'S "EUCATASTROPHE"
- MEDIAEVAL MYTH AND MODERN NARRATIVE
- JESTING IN EARNEST
- MYTH, FACT AND "LITERARY BELIEF"
- TEMPTATIONS FOR THE TIMES IN THE MYTHICAL REWRITINGS OF BRITISH CHRISTIAN AUTHORS 1933-1945
- INCARNATION AS META-NARRATIVE IN FLANNERY O'CONNOR'S SHORT STORIES
- PART III
- THE GODDESS AND THE UNDERWORLD IN MODERNISM
- MAKING IT NEW
- "IN THE GODDESS'S NAME"
- THE CULT OF DIONYSUS IN THE WORK OF W. B. YEATS
- "BREATHED ON BY THE RURAL PAN"
- GOD'S DEATH AND SUBSEQUENT RESURRECTION FROM FAUST TO APOCALYPTO
- UNITY AMONG THE STARS
- CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX
