Re-envisioning Mythopoeia

Nancy-Lou Patterson taught at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, from 1962 until she retired in 1992. The University of Waterloo named her a Distinguished Professor Emerita and Wilfrid Laurier University awarded her an honorary doctor of letters. Patterson taught art history and was an active artist, poet, and fiction writer. She was also an enthusiastic conference participant and scholar, who published extensively on her favorite research subject, the Inklings. Patterson's scholarship, poetry, fiction, and visual art presented here in "Mythopoeic Drawings," though often inspired by C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams, also shows her deep sense of affinity with shamanic and mythological traditions. This voume is an homage to that more ancient mythopoeic creative impulse which many authors and artists--like the Inklings and like Patterson--have rediscovered and made new again in their works.

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