Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1982

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Greer, Allen W.

Abstract

Through his study of myth, C. S. Lewis concluded that pagan mythology was a praeparatio evangelica for the ultimate "truth" of Christianity. To illustrate his conviction, Lewis has retold the myth of Cupid and Psyche, as transmitted by Apuleius, in Till We Have Faces. Lewis has, by burying in his novel analogues and allusions to Scripture, demonstrated how he believed God must have meant this pagan myth to be interpreted. In his myth, Lewis uses a central figure, Orual, to show how God reveals Himself to mortals. Before becoming Queen, she rejects all "signs" and "witnesses" from the gods. After she is Queen, the same "signs" and "witnesses" are viewed in retrospect and finally the "veil" of misunderstanding is lifted.

Extent

99 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1982.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT14112

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