Ransoming the Waste Land Volume I

Papers on C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, Chronicles of Narnia, and Other Works

404 pp. bib, index, 5 illus. by the author Nancy-Lou Patterson

Edited by Emily E. Auger and Janet Brennan Croft

Nancy-Lou Patterson taught at the University of Waterloo, ON, 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, & fiction writer. She was also an enthusiastic conference participant and scholar, who published extensively on her favorite research subject, the Inklings. many of her papers on C.S. Lewis are gathered in Ransoming the Waste Land Volumes I and II.

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Abbreviations for C.S. Lewis's Fiction

Preface by Emily E. Auger

Editorial Notes

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