Ransoming the Waste Land. Papers on C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, Chronicles of Narnia, and Other Works. Volumes I and II
By Nancy-Lou Patterson. Valleyhome Books, 2016
Edited by Emily E. Auger and Janet Brennan Croft
Ransoming the Waste Land Volume I
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"[...] this is a landmark collection. Patterson is not only a pioneer of Lewis studies and the source criticism of his works, her essays stand the test of time. It can be challenging to lay hands on older copies of Mythlore and the publications of the various C.S. Lewis societies where Patterson published, so it is exciting to have so many of her essays reproduced and gathered here. Each is informative, insightful, and accessible to both the newcomer and experienced Lewis reader, whether it is a large university or the private shelves of the serious Lewis reader. Enthusiastically recommenced."
——Excerpt from Review by Kris Swank in Mythlore 35.1 (Fall/Winter 2016): 176-82. Download full review from Mythlore.
Review by Joe Christopher. The Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society 36.1 (Fall 2017): 28-35. Preview
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Notice of publication in the University of Waterloo Daily Bulletin (4 July 2016)
Nancy-Lou Patterson taught at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, from 1962 until she retired in 1992. The University of Waterloo named her a Distinguished Professor Emerita and Wilfrid Laurier University awarded her an honorary doctor of letters. Patterson taught art history and was an active artist, poet, and fiction writer. She was also an enthusiastic conference participant and scholar, who published extensively on her favourite research subject, the Inklings. Many of her papers on C.S. Lewis are gathered here in Ransoming the Waste Land.
Volume I
Table of Contents
Arthurian and Biblical Themes
1. Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis in the Space Trilogy
2. Adventure and Exchange in the Space Trilogy
3. Waste Land and Fisher King in the Space Trilogy
4. "Miraculous Bread … Miraculous Wine"
A Hierarchy of Beings
5. "The Host of Heaven": Astrological and Other Images of Divinity
6. "This Equivocal Being": The Un-Man in Perelandra
7. "Some Kind of Company" in That Hideous Strength
8. "Banquet at Belbury": The Company of the Damned
The Unfathomable Feminine Principle
9. "Guardaci Ben": The Visionary Woman in That Hideous Strength and the Chronicles of Narnia
10. "Some Women" in That Hideous Strength
11. Archetypes of the Feminine in That Hideous Strength
Bibliography
Index
Volume II
Table of Contents
From Here to There: Time, Travel, and Transformation
1. Narnia and the North: The Symbolism of Northerness in the Fantasies of C.S. Lewis
2. "Always Winter and Never Christmas": Symbols of Time in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia
3. "Halfe Like a Serpent": The Green Witch in The Silver Chair
4. The Holy House of Ungit
Other Places, Other Beings, and Other Futures
5. The "Jasper-Lucent Landscapes" of C.S. Lewis
6. The Green Lewis: Inklings of Environmentalism in the Writing of C.S. Lewis
7. Lord of the Beasts: Animal Archetypes in C.S. Lewis
8. The Bolt of Tash: The Figure of Satan in C.S. Lewis's The Horse and His Boy and The Last Battle
9. Letters from Hell: The Symbolism of Evil in The Screwtape Letters
Bibliography
Index