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Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis | |
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| Name: |
Clive Staples Lewis | | Birth Date: |
November 29, 1898 | | Death Date: |
November 24, 1963 | | Place of Birth: |
Belfast, Ireland | | Place of Death: |
Oxford, England | | Nationality: |
British | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer, novelist, essayist |
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 Biography of Clive Staples Lewis
649 words, approx. 2.2 pages
 The British novelist and essayist Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was an established literary figure whose impact is increasingly recognized by scholars and teachers. On November 29, 1898, Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland. He was the son... summary from source:
 Biography of C(live) S(taples) Lewis
10321 words, approx. 34.4 pages
 Once best known as a Christian apologist and the author of The Screwtape Letters, and admired by at least two generations of scholars as a teacher and literary historian, C. S. Lewis may eventually be most famous for the seven books, collectively referre... summary from source:
Biography of C(live) S(taples) Lewis
9973 words, approx. 33.2 pages
Although C. S. Lewis published, as Peter J. Kreeft notes in his C. S. Lewis: A Critical Essay, "some sixty first-quality works of literary history, literary criticism, theology, philosophy, autobiography, Biblical studies, sermons, formal and informal es...
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 Till We Have Faces Information
1,969 words, approx. 7 pages
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold is a 1956 parallel novel by C. S. Lewis. It is a retelling of the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche, based on a chapter of The Golden Ass of Apuleius. The first part is written from the perspective of Psyche's older sister...
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 First Things Till We Have Built Jerusalem
02/01/2008: 1,408 words, approx. 5 pages Till We Have Built Jerusalem THE ARCHITECTURE OF RALPH ADAMS CRAM AND HIS OFFICE by ETHAN ANTHONY W.W. Norton, 176 pages, $60 Reviewed by Matthew Alderman RALPH ADAMS CRAM-the twentieth-century church builder, neomedieval social critic, spinner of ghost stories, and modern knighterrant-is... summary from source:
Christianity and Literature
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Sally A. Bartlett
6,034 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following essay, Bartlett provides a feminist reading of Till We Have Faces from the theoretical perspective of humanistic psychology. According to Bartlett, feminists and humanistic psychologists would object to Lewis's presentation of "self-effacing women" who submit to male control.
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Critical Essay by John H. Timmerman
1,181 words, approx. 4 pages
The driving motif of Till We Have Faces is the development of the soul, a motif explored allegorically in one of Lewis' earliest works, The Pilgrim's Regress. Here Lewis has recast the familiar myth of Cupid and Psyche, possibly attracted initially to the enchanting symbolism of the butterfly frequently associated with Psyche. Transformed from a creature of the earth to a creature of the air, from a creature that gropes in the darkness to a creature that flutters in the light, the butterfly se...
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Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis | |
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About 290 pages (86,893 words) in 12 products |
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