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Southwestern Oklahoma State University

1978

Adams, Richard. Watership Down—Moral and religious aspects

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The Shaman As Hero And Spiritual Leader: Richard Adams’ Mythmaking In Watership Down And Shardik, Edgar L. Chapman Oct 1978

The Shaman As Hero And Spiritual Leader: Richard Adams’ Mythmaking In Watership Down And Shardik, Edgar L. Chapman

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

Focuses mainly on Shardik, calling it “a demanding novel which explores the possible ways of responding to the emergence of the transcendental and mythic into ordinary existence.” With Watership Down, it justifies the importance of intuition, mystical, and transcendental experience.

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