Ransoming the Waste Land Volume II

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

294 pp. Bibliography, Index. 4 illus. by the author Nancy-Lou Patterson

Edited by Emily E. Auger & 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

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