Ransoming the Waste Land Papers on C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, Chronicles of Narnia, and Other Works Volume I

404 pp. bib, index, 5 illus. by author.

Eds. Emily E. Auger and Janet Brennan Croft. TOC

Arthurian & Biblical Themes

1. Thesis, Antithesis, & Synthesis in the Space Trilogy

2. Adventure & Exchange in the Space Trilogy

3. Waste Land & Fisher King in the Space Trilogy

4. Miraculous Bread ... Miraculous Wine.



A Hierarchy of Beings

5. The Host of Heaven: Astrological & 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.



Nancy-Lou Patterson taught at the U Waterloo 1962-1992. She was an active artist, poet, & fiction writer, & enthusiastic Inklings scholar.