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The faun's bookshelf : C.S. Lewis on why myth matters /

"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? Beginning with these imaginary texts, Charlie W. Starr offers a comprehensive study of C.S. Lewis's theory of myth,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Starr, Charlie W., 1963- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Kent, Ohio : Black Squirrel Books, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Folios and Fauns; Chapter One: Of the Making of Many (Fake) Books: Lewis and Mythopoeia; Chapter Two: Fauns and Their Fantasies; Chapter Three: Might Myth Be Real?; Part II: Narnian Reality, Terran Myth; Chapter Four: The Life and Letters of Silenus; Chapter Five: Fauns Are from Mars, Nymphs Are from Venus; Chapter Six: Why Sylvan Myths Matter; Part III: Terran Reality as Myth in Narnia; Chapter Seven: Defining Myth; Chapter Eight: Men, Monks, and Gamekeepers; a Study in Popular Legend; Chapter Nine: Is Man a Myth?
  • Part IV: Beyond the BookshelfChapter Ten: Mythic Knowing; Chapter Eleven: Lewis and the North; Chapter Twelve: An Interpretive Mystery of Mythic Proportion; Permissions Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index.