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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811996703321

Autore

Myers Doris T

Titolo

Bareface : a guide to C.S. Lewis's last novel / / Doris T. Myers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8262-6446-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Disciplina

823/.912

Soggetti

Eros (Greek deity) in literature

Mythology, Greek, in literature

Psyche (Greek deity) in literature

Psychology in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-244) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: "Bareface"-Why a Book about a Book? -- Part I. Chapter by Chapter -- Book One. The Way It All Happened -- Chapter 1. Welcome to Glome -- Chapter 2. Enter Psyche -- Chapter 3. Hard Times in Glome -- Chapter 4. Psyche the Accursed -- Chapter 5. The Condemnation of Psyche -- Chapter 6. Fighting for Psyche -- Chapter 7. The Night before the Offering -- Chapter 8. Psyche Is Gone -- Chapter 9. Life without Psyche -- Chapter 10. Over to the Other Side -- Chapter 11. Mixed Emotions -- Chapter 12. Guesses-And a Glimpse -- Chapter 13. Orual's Soul-Searching -- Chapter 14. Back to the Mountain -- Chapter 15. Meeting the God -- Chapter 16. Waiting and Building -- Chapter 17. The Queen Grows Stronger -- Chapter 18. The Eve of the Battle -- Chapter 19. Triumph and Sorrow -- Chapter 20. The Queen's Resumé -- Chapter 21. What Happened in Essur -- Book Two. What Really Happened -- Chapter 1. Reality Check -- Chapter 2. Who Is Ungit? -- Chapter 3. The Book at the Bottom of the Soul -- Chapter 4. Face to Face at Last -- Conclusion: The Soul's Journey -- Part II. Further In -- Apuleius and Lewis -- Chronology of Lewis's Life -- Glome, A Real Place-More or Less -- The Holy-Lewis and Otto -- James and Conversion -- Myth-A Definition -- Names in Glome -- The New Psychology -- Pagan Religion -- Plato-Banished from Glome --



Stoicism-The Faith of the Fox -- Time in Till We Have Faces -- Part III. Glossary -- Further Reading -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author.