Abstract
Discusses the Beauty and the Beast theme from Apuleius’s tale of Amor and Psyche through versions from Africa, India, North America, and Europe. Analyzes Lewis’s handling of the theme in Till We Have Faces.
Recommended Citation
Hood, Gwenyth
(1988)
"Husbands and Gods as Shadowbrutes: Beauty and the Beast from Apuleius to C.S. Lewis,"
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: Vol. 15
:
No.
2
, Article 5.
Available at:
https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol15/iss2/5
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