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Southwestern Oklahoma State University

1988

Barfield, Owen—Theory of Consciusness—Relation to fantasy

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Priestess And Goddess: Evolution Of Human Consciousness In The Greater Trumps, Donna R. White Mar 1988

Priestess And Goddess: Evolution Of Human Consciousness In The Greater Trumps, Donna R. White

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Extracts a definition of fantasy from Barfield’s theory of consciousness, and calls Williams a “master at [...] Barfieldian fantasy.” Analyzes The Greater Trumps as “the best exemplum” of this kind of fantasy, “that explores some aspect of human consciousness by reviving a mythic mode of thought.”

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