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A Retelling Within A Myth Retold: The Priest Of Essur And Lewisian Mythopoetics, Peter J. Schakel
A Retelling Within A Myth Retold: The Priest Of Essur And Lewisian Mythopoetics, Peter J. Schakel
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
Asks why Lewis felt the myth of Cupid and Psyche needed to be retold. The story told by the Priest of Essur is a “middle step” between the original myth and Lewis’s recasting of it, in which the incomplete pagan notion of sacrifice gives way to the fullness of that theme in Christianity.
The Figure Of Taliesin In Charles Williams' Arthuriad, Richard Woods
The Figure Of Taliesin In Charles Williams' Arthuriad, Richard Woods
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
Discusses Taliesin as a historical personage and as a legendary and mythological figure, and specifically the sources for Williams’s portrayal of Taliesin in his Arthurian poetry. Speculates on why Williams chose Taliesin as the “romantic focus” of his poems, how he conceived his role, and why he departed from traditional sources.