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  1. Re-embroidering the robe
    faith, myth and literary creation since 1850
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars Publ., Newcastle

    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 --... more

    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    2009 A 5564
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 1847186084; 9781847186089
    RVK Categories: HG 432 ; HG 436
    Subjects: Faith in literature; Mythology in literature; Myth in literature
    Scope: VII, 278 S., 22 cm
  2. Re-embroidering the robe
    faith, myth and literary creation since 1850
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars Pub., Newcastle ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    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... more

    Bibliothek der Hochschule Mainz, Untergeschoss
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    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 ...

     

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    Contributor: Bray, S.; Gavin, Adrienne E.; Merchant, Peter
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1847186084; 9781847186089; 9781443814942; 1443814946
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 278 pages)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

  3. Re-embroidering the robe
    faith, myth and literary creation since 1850
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars Pub., Newcastle

    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1847186084; 9781847186089; 9781443814942
    Subjects: Faith in literature; Mythology in literature; Myth in literature
    Scope: ix, 278 p
    Notes:

    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

  4. Re-embroidering the robe
    faith, myth and literary creation since 1850
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars Pub, Newcastle

    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... more

    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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    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

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1847186084; 9781847186089; 9781443814942; 1443814946
    Subjects: Faith in literature; Mythology in literature; Myth in literature; C 1900 -; Religion & beliefs; Faith in literature; Myth in literature; Mythology in literature; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Literary; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
    Scope: Online Ressource (ix, 278 p.)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

  5. Re-embroidering the robe
    faith, myth and literary creation since 1850
    Contributor: Bray, Suzanne (Hrsg.)
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars Publ., Newcastle

    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 --... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
    GE 2009/7067
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    2009 A 5564
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
    Brechtbau-Bibliothek
    NH 530.080
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    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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    Inhaltsverzeichnis (kostenfrei)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Bray, Suzanne (Hrsg.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 1847186084; 9781847186089
    Other identifier:
    9781847186089
    RVK Categories: HG 432 ; HG 436
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Subjects: Faith in literature; Mythology in literature; Myth in literature; Faith in literature; Mythology in literature; Myth in literature
    Scope: IX, 278 S., 22 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

  6. Re-embroidering the robe
    faith, myth and literary creation since 1850
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars Pub., Newcastle

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1443814946; 1847186084; 9781443814942; 9781847186089
    Subjects: Faith in literature; Myth in literature; Mythology in literature; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; Faith in literature; Mythology in literature; Myth in literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 278 p.)
    Notes:

    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

    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 ..