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- Title
On Beauty, Justice, and the Sublime in C. S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces.
- Authors
Arnell, Carla A.
- Abstract
The article presents literary criticism about C.S. Lewis's novel "Till We Have Face." Although beauty is a central preoccupation of the novel, rivaled only by its focus on justice, few critics have attended to the work's presentation of beauty as a thing in itself, apart from noting that the main character's ugliness becomes a symbol of her spiritual state in the course of the story. Lewis's story is narrated by its central character, Orual, an old woman nearing death who relates her life story as a complaint against the gods' injustice to her.
- Subjects
TILL We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (Book); LEWIS, C. S., 1898-1963; PERSONAL beauty in literature; JUSTICE in literature; LITERARY characters; FICTION
- Publication
Christianity & Literature, 2002, Vol 52, Issue 1, p23
- ISSN
0148-3331
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1177/014833310205200102