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The Artist As Magician: Yeats, Joyce, And Tolkien, Dominic Manganiello
The Artist As Magician: Yeats, Joyce, And Tolkien, Dominic Manganiello
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
Examines the significance of symbolism of transcendence in several works by Yeats and Joyce, and ties this to theories of consolation and eucatastrophe in Tolkien’s “On Fairy-stories.” Finds Tolkien’s theory of sub-creation more fulfilling than their view of the artist as a creator.