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__NOTOC__{{Infobox_Contents |topic_name ==Synopsis==Till We Have Faces[[Image:TillWeHaveFaces.jpg|rightcenter|200px]]| '''''Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold''''' is a dramatic retelling of the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche, predicated by subtopics = [[C. S. Lewis]] from a chapter of ''The Golden Ass'' of Apuleius. The first part is written from the perspective of Psyche’s ugly eldest sister Orual, as a long-withheld accusation against the gods. Although the book is set in the fictional kingdom of Glome, Greece is often mentioned. In effect, the story deals with the interplay between the Hellenistic, rationalistic world-view and the powerful, irrational, primitive one.|opinion_pieces ==Contents== {{opinionsshort_opinions}}| {{quotes}} ==Main article==
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"Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold" is a dramatic retelling of the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche, predicated by [[C. S. Lewis]] from a chapter of ''The Golden Ass'' of Apuleius. The first part is written from the perspective of Psyche’s ugly eldest sister Orual, as a long-withheld accusation against the gods. Although the book is set in the fictional kingdom of Glome, Greece is often mentioned. In effect, the story deals with the interplay between the Hellenistic, rationalistic world-view and the powerful, irrational, primitive one.
* Myers, Doris T. (2002). Browsing the Glome Library. ''SEVEN: An Anglo-American Literary Review'' '''19''' (2). This discusses many classical references that Lewis used in the book, now obscure to many readers.
* ''The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales'' by Bruno Bettelheim (1977), ISBN 0-394-49771-6 (The connection between "Cupid and Psyche" and "Beauty and the Beast" is found on pp 291-295 and 303-310).
*Donaldson, Mara E. ''Holy Places are Dark Places: C. S. Lewis and Paul Ricoeur on Narrative Transformation''. Boston: U of America P, 1988. (Currently out of Print)*Myers, Doris T. ''Bareface: A Guide to C. S. Lewis’s Last Novel''. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2004.*Schakel, Peter. ''Reason and Imagination in C.S. Lewis: A Study of'' Till We Have Faces. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1984.
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*[http://www.inchoatus.com/Miscellaneous/Till%20We%20Have%20Faces,%20C.S.%20Lewis.htm Review and Critiscism: ''Till We Have Faces'']
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